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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

As consciousness around racial justice increases, and questions around the Church of England’s response continue, the church is discovering that th...

In 2015 the United Kingdom Independence Party published a ‘Christian Manifesto’ in preparation for the general elections, with the title Valuing ou...

Messianic stories run through the Abrahamic faiths and many others besides. Messianism is the religion of the oppressed; the faith of those whose s...

In the contemporary church, the word ‘mission’ has become synonymous with pace, expansion and results. And yet such an approach can often leave tho...

In an era where the church's social concerns are often seen as moderate or co-opted by the Christian Right, this book offers a bold critique and re...

Throughout history, Christians have reached for a variety of metaphors to try and understand and explain the journey of discipleship. Engaging with...

As we start to name an aspect of his existence which long remained unspoken, namely his engagement and wrestling with his own identity as inhabitin...