Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology
About the Book Series
The field of ecclesiology has grown remarkably in the last decade, and most especially in relation to the study of the contemporary church. Recently, theological attention has turned once more to the nature of the church, its practices and proclivities, and to interpretative readings and understandings of its role, function and ethos in contemporary society.
This series draws from a range of disciplines and established scholars to further the study of contemporary ecclesiology and publish an important cluster of landmark titles in this field. The series editors represent a range of Christian traditions and disciplines, and this reflects the breadth and depth of books developing in the Series. This series presents a clear focus on the contemporary situation of churches worldwide, offering an invaluable resource for students, researchers, ministers and other interested readers around the world working or interested in the diverse areas of contemporary ecclesiology and the important changing shape of the church worldwide.
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the UK: Worldview and the End Times
1st Edition
By Keith Chappell
January 30, 2025
Combining ethnographic research with theological analysis, this book explores how the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR), one of the largest new movements within the global Catholic Church, has developed in contemporary Britain and Northern Ireland. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, this study ...
The Turn to The Church in The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: A Promising Ecclesiology
1st Edition
By Sjoerd Mulder
January 29, 2024
This book investigates the recent renewed theological focus on ecclesiology and the practices of the church. In light of the diminishing role of the church in Western society over the last century, it considers how theologians have come to view church life as essential to faith and theological ...
Testing Fresh Expressions: Identity and Transformation
1st Edition
By John Walker
September 30, 2021
Testing Fresh Expressions investigates whether fresh expressions of church really do what is claimed for them by the fresh expressions movement and, in particular, whether their unique approach helps to reverse trends of decline experienced by traditional churches. Part 1 examines those claims ...
Contemporary Issues in the Worldwide Anglican Communion: Powers and Pieties
1st Edition
By Abby Day
June 30, 2020
Contemporary Issues in the Worldwide Anglican Communion offers unique perspectives on an organisation undergoing significant and rapid change with important religious and wider sociological consequences. The book explores what the academic research community, Anglican clergy and laypeople are ...
Virtue Ecclesiology: An Exploration in The Good Church
1st Edition
By John Fitzmaurice
June 30, 2020
Critiquing a paradigm of growth within the church, this book contends that the church’s growth ethic should be replaced by one based on virtue. Drawing on the work of Sennett, Fromm, and Hauerwas, John Fitzmaurice argues that an approach taking growth to be the overriding task of the church is ...
The Holy Spirit and the Church: Ecumenical Reflections with a Pastoral Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Hughson
December 12, 2019
Advancing strong, scholarly discussion on the Holy Spirit and the church in the context of the ecumenical movement, six theologians in five different churches offer new theological and pastoral insights into the work of the Holy Spirit in the churches of Christianity, in ecumenism, and in witness. ...
The Rise and Fall of the English Christendom: Theocracy, Christology, Order and Power
1st Edition
By Bruce Kaye
December 12, 2019
English Christendom has never been a static entity. Evangelism, politics, conflict and cultural changes have constantly and consistently developed it into myriad forms across the world. However, in recent times that development has seemingly become a general decline. This book utilises the motif of...
The Wisdom of the Spirit: Gospel, Church and Culture
1st Edition
By Martyn Percy, Pete Ward
December 12, 2019
In this groundbreaking book exploring Christianity and contemporary culture, internationally-renowned scholars (including David Martin, Alister McGrath, Billy Abraham, Billy Kay and Pete Ward), interface with the legacy of Andrew Walker’s work and look forward in their own predictions of trends. ...
Practical Theology and Pierre-André Liégé: Radical Dominican and Vatican II Pioneer
1st Edition
By Nicholas Bradbury
February 12, 2018
Pierre-André Liégé, one of the foremost French theologians of the 20th century, influenced John XXIII and Paul VI, and sat on Vatican II committees with both the future John Paul II and Benedict VI. Fifty years on from Vatican II is a good time to remember the decade of dramatic struggle and ...
Mothering as a Metaphor for Ministry
1st Edition
By Emma Percy
February 06, 2018
Drawing together original research which weaves together ideas from theology, philosophy, feminism and writing on mothering and child development, Emma Percy affirms and encourages aspects of good practice in ministry that are in danger of being overlooked because they are neither well-articulated ...
The Anglican Imagination: Portraits and Sketches of Modern Anglican Theologians
1st Edition
By Robert Boak Slocum
March 29, 2017
The variety and depth of Anglican theology is best engaged through personal encounter with its many sources - the theologians and theological witnesses themselves. Anglican theology is often worked out in personal terms that provide a synthesis between reflection on the truths of faith and the ...
The Future Shapes of Anglicanism: Currents, contours, charts
1st Edition
By Martyn Percy
February 03, 2017
To many people, the Church of England and worldwide Anglican Communion has the aura of an institution that is dislocated and adrift. Buffeted by tempestuous and stormy debates on sexuality, gender, authority and power – to say nothing of priorities in mission and ministry, and the ...