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  • Christianity in Britain Since 1914

    Edited by David Goodhew, Mark Smith ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book charts the profound changes in British Christianity over the last century. It does so through the medium of diverse local case-studies, based on high quality new research. The ethnic diversification of British churches in the last fifty years is a key theme of the volume. Overall, the chapters show how secularization has had different trajectories in different parts of the country. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Northern Gospel, Northern Church

    Reflections on Identity and Mission

    “Enlightening, thought provoking and honest, a bit like the North itself” — Kate Bottley (the “Gogglebox Vicar”)Foreword by John Sentamu, Archbishop of YorkA must-have book for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of proclaiming the Gospel in the North of England.From the monks of Lindisfarne to the Synod of Whitby, the North is historically considered to be a cradle of Christianity in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Towards a Theology of Church Growth

    by David Goodhew ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology
    Concern about church growth and decline is widespread and contentious, yet theological reflection on church growth is scarce. Reflecting on the Bible, dogmatic theology and church history, this book situates the numerical growth of the church within wider Christian theology. Leading international scholars, including Alister McGrath, Benedicta Ward and C. Kavin Rowe, contribute a spectrum of voices ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Church Growth in Britain

    1980 to the Present

    Edited by David Goodhew ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology
    There has been substantial church growth in Britain between 1980 and 2010. This is the controversial conclusion from the international team of scholars, who have drawn on interdisciplinary studies and the latest research from across the UK. Such church growth is seen to be on a large scale, is multi-ethnic and can be found across a wide range of social and geographical contexts. It is happening ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion

    1980 to the Present

    Edited by David Goodhew ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology
    The Anglican Communion is one of the largest Christian denominations in the world. Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion is the first study of its dramatic growth and decline in the years since 1980. An international team of leading researchers based across five continents provides a global overview of Anglicanism alongside twelve detailed case studies. The case studies stretch from ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Desecularisation of the City

    London’s Churches, 1980 to the Present

    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    Major cities have long been seen as centres of secularisation. However, the number of congregations in London grew by 50% between 1979 and the present. London’s churches have been characterised more by growth than by decline in the decades since 1980. The Desecularisation of the City provides the first academic survey of churches in London over recent decades, linking them to similar developments ... Read more

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    How the Church of England Lost the English People

    The Church of England still seemed an essential part of Englishness, and even of the British state, when Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979. The decades which followed saw a seismic shift in the foundations of the C of E, leading to the loss of more than half its members and much of its influence. In England today 'religion' has become a toxic brand, and Anglicanism something done by other people. ... Read more

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  • A Church with the Soul of a Nation

    Making and Remaking the United Church of Canada

    Series Book 61 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
    "As Canadian as the maple leaf" is how one observer summed up the United Church of Canada after its founding in 1925. But was this Canadian-made church flawed in its design, as critics have charged? A Church with the Soul of a Nation explores this question by weaving together the history of the United Church with a provocative analysis of religion and cultural change.The story begins in the ... Read more

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  • Being a Chaplain

    Series series The SPCK Library of Ministry
    Chaplaincy - a place for those who have sold out, can't hack church ministry and don't believe in mission?Against the negative stereotypes, this book argues that chaplains are a valuable resource to the Church. Embedded in places as diverse as prisons, hospitals, educational establishments and the armed forces, chaplains often encounter social trends well in advance of the institutional churches. ... Read more

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  • Faith and Politics After Christendom

    The Church as a Movement for Anarchy

    This groundbreaking book examines the anarchic aspects of Jesus' message, and suggests that the demise of the church as pillar of social order gives it a fresh opportunity to exercise its prophetic role - challenging injustice, shaking institutions and undermining some of the central values and norms on which post-Christian society is built. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Making God Possible

    The task of ordained ministry present and future

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    $12.99 USD

  • A Short History of Global Evangelicalism

    This book offers an authoritative overview of the history of evangelicalism as a global movement, from its origins in Europe and North America in the first half of the eighteenth century to its present-day dynamic growth in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. Starting with a definition of the movement within the context of the history of Protestantism, it follows the history of evangelicalism ... Read more

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