Summer Sale: Mission & Liturgy
Resources for church mission and liturgical life in our Summer Sale.
A Rite on the Edge
The Language of Baptism and Christening in the Church of England
Using a new interdisciplinary approach to practical theology, A Rite on the Edge, reflects theologically on the findings of research conducted by Sarah Lawrence into baptism in the Church of England and in English culture more widely, using insights...
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£25.00
£15.00
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£25.00
Christianity Rediscovered
Popular Edition
Christianity Rediscovered is more than just a classic missionary story. It is also a profound challenge, a call to a radical redefinition of what we mean when we talk about mission - as relevant to today's church as it was when it was first written.
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£12.99
£10.00
As a Fire By Burning
Mission as the Life of the Local Congregation
Mission is the key subject in all denominations. All who prepare for ministry will have to study mission. Several training institutions have already created posts to train students in pioneer ministry.This is a book that brings together current...
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£38.00
£8.00
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£35.00
Ecclesianarchy
Adaptive Ministry for a Post-Church Society
Arguing that what is needed is a provisional approach to ministry which recognises that all forms of ministry are, and always have been a response to social and cultural context, 'Ecclesianarchy' brings theological and practical insight to bear on...
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£25.00
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Episkope
The Theory and Practice of Translocal Oversight
Roger Standing and Paul Goodliff, together with experienced church leaders drawn from across the churches, establish the common foundations that inform our conversations about translocal ministry.
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£35.00
£15.00
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£35.00
Flexible Church
Being the Church in the Contemporary World
Flexible Church proposes an ecclesiology for innovative expressions of church that is grounded in biblical texts whilst self-consciously and intentionally developed for the contemporary Western milieu. The result is a framework serves as a guide and...
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£25.00
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£25.00
Future of Preaching
Preaching remains a central feature of almost all Christian worship. There are thousands of men and women in the UK who preach on a regular basis. This book covers such subjects as Preaching in a Communications Culture, Preaching and the Bible,...
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£17.99
£5.00
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£16.99
Generous Ecclesiology
Church, World and the Kingdom of God
Generous Ecclesiology seeks to present a positive theological response to the issues raised by Mission-Shaped Church and For the Parish. The former reminds us that the church is to engage in creative and imaginative ways with our missionary calling....
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£21.99
£8.00
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£19.99
Growing and Flourishing
The Ecology of Church Growth
What is genuine church growth? Is it, at heart, the numerical growth of regular congregations or are there other dimensions and, if so, what are they? How can we learn from other contexts in order to properly inform our understanding of what we...
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£19.99
£8.00
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£19.99
Hospitality, Service, Proclamation
Interfaith engagement as Christian discipleship
Hospitality, Service, Proclamation seeks to demystify the interfaith project. Tom Wilson argues that rather than a threat to churches, interfaith dialogue is an important tool for discipleship.
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£19.99
£8.00
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£12.99
Liturgy with a Difference
Beyond Inclusion in the Christian Assembly
Liturgy with a Difference gathers a broad range of international theologians and scholars to interrogate current practices of liturgy and worship in order to unmask ways in which dehumanizing majoritarianisms and presumed norms of gender, culture,...
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£30.00
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Leading by Story
Rethinking Church Leadership
It is often considered controversial to draw any links between the worlds of leadership, management and organizational behaviour and that of churches. Leading by Story argues that there is plenty of common ground to be found between the two...
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£28.00
£10.00
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£25.00
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Melodies of a New Monasticism
Bonhoeffer's Vision, Iona's Witness
"Melodies of a New Monasticism" adopts a musical metaphor of polyphony (the combination of two or more lines of music) to articulate the way that early Christian virtues can be woven together in community.
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£28.00
£8.00
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£25.00
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The Bible in Worship
Proclamation, Encounter and Response
The Bible witnesses to the foundational experiences of the Church. Its proclamation invites worshippers into encounter with Christ, the living Word. The Bible in Worship seeks to make visible how the Bible is encountered in the worship of...
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£38.00
£10.00
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£35.00
The Eucharistic Faith
In The Eucharistic Faith, the first of a significant new systematic theology of the Eucharist, Ralph N. McMichael weaves liturgy and theology together to understand the ways in which theology and Christian faith are, at heart, about the...
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Table Manners
Liturgical Leadership for the Mission of the Church
There is a growing (if not urgent) need for those being trained for ordained (and lay) ministry to be provided with a more solid grounding in liturgical principles, and Simon Reynolds seeks to address this by demonstrating how good liturgical...
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£21.99
£8.00
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£19.99
The Language of Liturgy
A Ritual Poetics
How language works in the worship of the church has been vigorously debated during the period of liturgical revision in the twentieth century coming at the end of what is known as the Liturgical Movement.
Focussing upon the Church of...
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£33.00
£10.00
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£30.00
This Assembly of Believers
The Gifts of Difference in the Church at Prayer
In 'This Assembly of Believers' Bryan Cones seeks to take seriously the pastoral context of a congregation, recognising the physical ability, gender and sexuality of those who make up the congregation.
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£30.00
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£30.00
