Ruth Perrin’s landmark study of emerging adults who, age 20 described themselves as Christians, reveals what has happened to this apparently “lost generation.” Considering the factors which help shape millennial belief, Changing...

Kate Bruce argues that imagination can help to engage the hearer in a sermon which seeks to evoke rather than to inform. Imagination frames how we see the world and ourselves in it. As such it has a vital role in how preachers see the preaching task...

Engaging with the work of influential theological voices such as Leslie Newbigin, Tom Wright and Martyn Percy, Hopeful Influence argues that it is in the process of helping others to see, participate in or experience the world to come that...

"Preaching Women" considers reasons why women preachers should preach from their experiences as women, what women bring to preaching that is missing without us, and how women preachers can go about the task of biblical preaching. 

Mission is a problematical term with many unfortunate connotations. This book explores the process of evangelization from its beginning in the ancient world through to the last half-century.

Examines a number of recent reports issued by the churches. Argues for a closer analysis of the 'theology' on which they are based and for alertness to the influence of fashionable dogmas.

A brilliant collection from the pre-eminent New Testament scholar who wrote The Shadow of the Galilean. He believes that modern sermons are indications that God is alive and getting in touch through the barriers put up by our everyday mentality.

In a sympathetic and warmly empathic style, John V. Taylor tells of his encounters with many different African people, and reflects theologically on the conversations he has shared with people in a wide variety of circumstances.

Can the urban church survive in Britain and Western Europe? The increasing irrelevance of churches and Christianity to people and public life drives this enquiry to look for answers by examining marginalization processes focused on divisions within...

This book explores what mission and discipleship meant for some of the earliest Christian communities. It is based on the Hugh Price Hughes Lectures in the West London Mission.