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Helen Paynter Editor & Author

Helen Paynter is a Baptist minister, Director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, and tutor at Bristol Baptist College, UK.

Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts cover

Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts

2 contributors - Hardback

£129.99

40 Days - Luke cover

40 Days - Luke

5 authors - Other book format

£4.99

Blessed Are the Peacemakers cover

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Helen Paynter - Paperback

£27.00

Telling Terror in Judges 19 cover

Telling Terror in Judges 19

Helen Paynter - Hardback

£51.99

The Bible Doesn't Tell Me So cover

The Bible Doesn't Tell Me So

Helen Paynter - Paperback

£8.99

God of Violence Yesterday, God of Love Today? cover

God of Violence Yesterday, God of Love Today?

Helen Paynter - Paperback

£9.99

The Bible on Violence cover

The Bible on Violence

2 contributors - Hardback

£70.00

Telling Terror in Judges 19 cover

Telling Terror in Judges 19

Helen Paynter - Paperback

£21.99

The Church, The Far Right, and The Claim to Christianity cover

The Church, The Far Right, and The Claim to Christianity

2 contributors - Paperback

£25.00

Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts cover

Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts

2 contributors - Paperback

£109.99