Sarum College is an ecumenical study and research centre with an international reputation for excellence in theological education and spiritual reflection.
Applications for any of Sarum’s four MA programmes are now being accepted.
Sarum College offers a distinguished location for meetings, conferences, events and functions with full catering services.
Sarum College Bookshop is Salisbury's most established independent Christian and theological bookshop.
The Sarum College Library has an outstanding academic theological collection of more than 40,000 books covering all denominations.
Sarum College Library is all about books! We have over 40,000 of them dating from 1545 to this year. We are an ideal resource for anyone with an interest in theology, ethics, Christian spirituality, church history and related areas.
We also have access to several E-books. All are linked from the library catalogue but to see a list of available titles, click here. You will need your library borrower card and a password to read them online.
The library’s special collections and archives are available to view with prior appointment. Contact the library staff for more information.
Donate-a-Book
The library has a wish list of books not recommended for particular courses but which look interesting or would fill gaps in our collection. Prices start at £8.99 and donated books will have a book plate inside with the donor’s name. You might also consider clubbing together with others to donate a more expensive title. Sarum College Bookshop offers a 10% discount on all wish-list titles. To donate a book, please click on ‘Donate’ to send an email with the book title and your details or contact the Library.
| Title | Price | |||
| 1. | The Bible: The Biography by Karen Armstrong | £8.99 | Received | |
| 2. | The Lord and His Prayer (SPCK Classic) by Tom Wright | £8.99 | Donate | |
| 3. | Simply Jesus: Who He Was, What He Did, Why it Matters by Tom Wright | £9.99 | Donate | |
| 4. | Love Unknown: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2012 Lent Book by Ruth Burrows | £9.99 | Donate | |
| 5. | God Lost & Found by John Pritchard | £9.99 | Donate | |
| 6. | The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life by Joan Chittister | £10.99 | Donate | |
| 7. | Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith by Alister E. McGrath | £10.99 | Donate | |
| 8. | Guidelines for Mystical Prayer by Ruth Burrows | £11.99 | Donate | |
| 9. | Livesimply:a CAFOD resource for living simply,sustainably and in solidarity by Annabel Shilson-Thomas & Linda Jones | £9.99 | Donate | |
| 10. | The Faith of the English: Integrating Christ and culture by Nigel Rooms | £12.99 | Donate | |
| 11. | The Philosophical Life: Twelve Great Thinkers and the Search for Wisdom, from Socrates to Nietzsche by James Miller | £14.99 | Donate | |
| 12. | Buddhist Christianity: A Passionate Openness by Ross Thompson | £14.99 | Donate | |
| 13. | Discipleship (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works) by Dietrich Bonhoeffer et al. | £10.99 | Donate | |
| 14. | The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 by Brian Cummings | £16.99 | Donate | |
| 15. | Collected Writings on Scripture by D A Carson | £16.99 | Donate | |
| 16. | Happiness by Joan Chittister | £12.99 | Donate | |
| 17. | The state of the Church and the Church of the State by Michael Turnbull & Donald McFadyen | £14.99 | Donate | |
| 18. | He began with Moses by Paul J Kissling and Laurence A Turner, Grenville J R Kent et al. | £14.99 | Donate | |
| 19. | Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church Is Influencing the Way We Think about and Discuss Theology by Timothy C. Tennent | £14.99 | Donate | |
| 20. | Growing Together by Flora Winfield | £12.99 | Donate | |
| 21. | The Radical Christian Life: A Year with Saint Benedict by Joan Chittister | £12.99 | Donate | |
| 22. | Time for Change: A Fresh Look at Spirituality, Sexuality, Globalisation and the Church by Donal Dorr | £14.50 | Donate | |
| 23. | English Church Music, Volume 2: Canticles and Responses: Vocal score (Oxford Choral Classics Collections) by Robert King & John Rutter | £14.95 | Donate | |
| 24. | Apostolic and Prophetic: Ecclesiological Perspectives by Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen | £19.50 | Donate | |
| 25. | Like Fire in the Bones: Listening for the Prophetic Word in Jeremiah by Walter Brueggemann | £16.99 | Donate | |
| 26. | The Road to Siena: The Essential Biography of St. Catherine by Edmund Garratt Gardner | £15.99 | Donate | |
| 27. | Performance in Preaching (Engaging Worship) by Clayton Schmit & Jana L. Childers | £14.99 | Donate | |
| 28. | The Word is Flesh and Blood: The Eucharist and Sacred Scripture by Thomas L. Brodie et al. | £14.99 | Donate | |
| 29. | Pilgrims and Pilgrimage: Journey, Spirituality & Daily Life Through the Centuries by Patrick Gibbs & Dee Dyas | £15.00 | Donate | |
| 30. | Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir by Stanley Hauerwas | £19.99 | Donate | |
| 31. | SCM Studyguide to Theological Reflection (SCM Study Guide) by Judith Thompson et al. | £18.99 | Donate | |
| 32. | The Church’s Other Half: Women’s ministry by Trevor Beeson | £19.99 | Donate | |
| 33. | Jesus Paul & the People of God: A theological dialogue with N. T. Wright by Nicholas Perrin & Richard Hayes | £19.99 | Donate | |
| 34. | Mindful Ministry by Judith Thompson & Ross Thompson | £19.99 | Donate | |
| 35. | The Witness of Preaching by Thomas G. Long | £17.99 | Donate | |
| 36. | Introducing World Christianity by Robert W. Hefner & Charles E. Farhadian | £19.99 | Donate | |
| 37. | Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies and Methods by Eckhard J. Schnabel | £18.99 | Donate | |
| 38. | The Future of the Global Church by Patrick Johnstone | £24.99 | Donate | |
| 39. | The SCM Press A-Z of Origen (SCM Press A-Z) by John McGuckin | £22.99 | Donate | |
| 40. | An Evangelical Family Revealed: The Bickersteth & Monier-Williams Letters & Diaries 1880-1918 by Margaret Ford | £20.00 | Donate | |
| 41. | Hebrews Between Cultures: Group Portraits and National Literature (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature) by Meir Sternberg | £21.99 | Donate | |
| 42. | Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenge of Art by T.j. Gorringe | £25.00 | Donate | |
| 43. | The Great Ejectment of 1662: Its Antecedents, Aftermath, and Ecumenical Significance by Alan P.F. Sell | £22.00 | Donate | |
| 44. | Paul and the Dynamics of Power: Communication and Interaction in the Early Christ-movement (Library of New Testament Studies) by Kathy Ehrensperger | £23.99 | Donate | |
| 45. | Trinity and Creation: A Selection of Works of Hugh, Richard and Adam of St Victor (Victorine Texts in Translation) by Boyd Taylor Coolman et al. | £27.50 | Donate | |
| 46. | Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts by Craig S Keener | £32.99 | Donate | |
| 47. | LUKE VOL 35C HB: Luke 18:35-24:53 v. 35C (Word Biblical Commentary) by John Nolland | £29.99 | Donate | |
| 48. | Singing the Faith by Methodist Publishing | £30.00 | Donate | |
| 49. | LUKE VOL 35A HB: Luke 1:1-9:20 Vol 35A (Word Biblical commentary) by John Nolland | £29.99 | Donate | |
| 50. | Protestants in Communist East Germany by Wendy R. Tyndale | £45.00 | Donate | |
| 51. | Christianity and Romance in Medieval England (Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching/Research) by Rosalind Field et al. | £50.00 | Donate | |
| 52. | Chaucer and Religion (Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching/Research) by Helen Phillips | £55.00 | Donate | |
| 53. | The Passing of Protestant England: Secularisation and Social Change, c.1920-1960 by S. J. D. Green | £60.00 | Donate | |
| 54. | Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature, 700-1500 by Dee Dyas | £55.00 | Donate | |
| 55. | Women, Religion and Feminism in Britain, 1750-1900 by Sue Morgan | £65.00 | Donate | |
| 56. | Tractarians and the ‘Condition of England‘: The Social and Political Thought of the Oxford Movement (Oxford Historical Monographs) by S. A. Skinner | £106.00 | Donate | |
| 57. | The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion) by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore | £110.00 | Donate |
These are a few of the books which have been added to the library’s shelves in the last few months. To see more, click here
