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The Thinker Reconciling Islam With Modernity
The Theology of Tariq Ramadan: a Catholic Perspective BY GREGORY BAUM UNIVERSITY NOTRE DAME PRESS, £13.99 ‘B ecause the Catholic Church first rejected modernity and then......
Music
King Arthur BARBICAN HALL, 7.30PM, WED MAY 6 The Barbican’s celebration of the 350th anniversary of Purcell continues with King Arthur , a semi-opera first performed in 1691......
Cinema
X-Men Origins: Wolverine 12A CERT, 107 MINS Continuing the hugely successful X-Men franchise comes this spinoff about the most popular of the Marvel Comics mutants, James Logan,......
Theatre
Rookery Nook MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY, LONDON Ben Travers’s farce was premiered during the General Strike of 1926 when it ran for 409 performances and became the most famous of......
Television
Islands of Britain ITV, 9PM, SUNDAY MAY 3 Martin Clunes nearly drowned while making this documentary about the 1,000 or so remote, rocky and sometimes strange islands that......
A Master Communicator Of The Holy Trinity
CLASSIC CATHOLIC BOOK Theology and Sanity BY F J SHEED I f it were not for Theology and Sanity , which I read first as a very young man, I doubt if I would be writing in this......
Books In Brief
The Parenting Book by Nicky and Sila Lee (Alpha International £7.99) This clear and readable book will be invaluable to parents struggling to raise their children in an age when......
Cd
Padre Pio Prayer CORO, £15.19 Premiered at a performance by the Sixteen in Westminster Cathedral, the three new choral works by James MacMillan, Rozanna Panufnik and Will Todd......
Eminem: Relapse
POLYDOR, £16.99 Rapper Eminem’s new album Relapse charts the course of his depression, addiction to prescription drugs and the murder of his best friend and his return to......