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What we believe about God becomes the basis for how we think about ourselves, as leaders and individuals, and how by extension, we think about and ...

Perhaps one of the least appreciated aspects of Rowan Williams is his theology of imagination. Seeking to fill this gap, this book explores the ima...

The Church of England’s status as the only established church in the Anglican Communion often sparks heated debates, with critics calling it an out...

In Assaulted Body, Assaulted Faith, Samantha Smith explores the profound intersection of trauma, faith, and the lived experiences of women who have...

Contemporary dominant models of masculinity in Britain are often toxic, highly damaging to both men under pressure to embody them, and women who ar...

In unsteady political, societal and ecclesial times, what might a missional ecclesiology offer? Drawn from a consultation instigated by the Church ...

Why are some black people leaving mainstream churches and joining alternative Black Bible Religions? With increasing numbers of Black Brits becomin...

How have inherited and contemporary notions of perfection distorted our theology and the way in which we have expressed and lived out our faith? Im...

Based on research into British Millennials’ involvement in international Christian missions, this book asks why – given the trends in faith in the ...

This new collection, from chaplains in a wide variety of contemporary chaplaincy settings in the UK and around the globe, brings together practitio...

This is a critical and unique time for British Chinese Christians. On the one hand, the national churches of each of Britain’s four nations have ex...

Providing an accessible one-volume guide to Christian doctrine, this is a thorough re-write of the first edition. Since the original was published,...

The experience of university is a unique time of change and development, not least in terms of faith. This book takes seriously the faith lives and...

Recently there has been a renewed interest in cultural circles in the Christian faith, whether in terms of the high-profile conversions of people s...

Bivocational Ministry (BM) is a much more universal phenomenon amongst churches than has often been recognised. Whilst much attention has been paid...

What might a political theology of leadership look like in uncertain times? Spaces of Hope explores how individuals and communities work together t...

Discourses of development have been part of the modern world, for good or for ill. In the past, various colonialisms have been justified by the not...

For the church, “creation care” is back on the agenda. But is creation care really the full picture or do we need to learn that we are a part of th...

Of all the array of different ministries within the church, it is perhaps deliverance ministry which causes the most concern and confusion, and yet...

Why do we need to think differently about why and how Christian adults learn? How can disruptive-inclusion help us do that? And what are the implic...

Dwelling Places aims to inspire the Church—laity and clergy alike—by giving voice to the often-overlooked, socially and spiritually transformative ...

We can no longer read biblical texts that include explicit and implicit depictions of violence without awareness of trauma. In Esther Keeps the Sco...

This is the last book that Bonhoeffer wrote before he was arrested by the Nazis. Pages of it were on his desk the day he was taken away and it rema...

Offering an in-depth exploration of the intricate interplay between theology, ecology, and social justice Facing Climate Collapse critically engage...

The SCM Companion to Feminist Theologies explores the contemporary contours of the field. With contributors from a diverse range of settings the vo...

Climate change and changing ecological relationships pose some of the greatest scientific, moral and social challenges in the contemporary world an...

Convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2022, the Lambeth Conference was an international meeting of Anglican bishops. The conference discussed...

Growing Faith: Equipping Leaders for Ministry with Children and Young People is a comprehensive exploration of the theological and practical aspect...

The life of Gutiérrez has spanned nearly a century and it is now over fifty years since the publication of his most famous work A Theology of Liber...

Even today, there are still great swathes of theological discourse which remain unheard and ignored by the dominant Western theological establishme...

Analytic Theology is a new and growing movement that draws on the Anglo-American analytic philosophical tradition for theological work. It prizes c...

Austerity-age poverty represents a clear and present danger that has ruptured the social fabric of British society. Life on the Breadline represent...

Life Together, originally written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a reflection and rule of life during his time as leader of the illegal seminary of the ...

Nearly 30 years after South African missiologist David Bosch explored what he called elements of an emerging ecumenical missionary paradigm Lived M...

Once an individual is formally diagnosed with a mental health condition such as bipolar or depression they enter into a period of disorientation - ...

Narrating Rape presents exciting new scholarship on how to read, wrestle with, and respond to sexual violence and rape in and around biblical texts...

New Churches: A Theology considers the theological issues and questions that surface from the starting of new churches in the UK context. Offering ...

The UK can be described as a postmodern, secular, multicultural multi-ethnic society and within this context has emerged multicultural churches ove...

Building on the interest in autism theology, Praying by the Rules explicitly demonstrating what this can contribute to theological discourse of the...

Pregnancy is a period of time that institutes great change in the lives of those who are pregnant. Regardless of whether a pregnancy concludes with...

The pursuit of bodily “perfection” is a cultural impetus persistent over eras which has become a dominating force in modern Western culture, where ...

African-descended women have long had a fraught relationship with orthodox readings of the bible. They have not been allowed to find their own hist...

Reparations is currently a ‘stubborn’ and ‘hot’ conversation point across various landscapes. In churches and mission bodies, intentional conversat...

What made Jesus’ message “good news” in its original context—and why does it still reverberate today? In "Reverberations of Good News", the Gospels...

From rites of passage to patterned actions in the in-group, ritual is essential to human life, as it creates a shared and conventional world of hum...

Tell These Stones to Become Bread: Church as Negative Work reimagines the church as a space of continual transformation rather than institutional p...