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 ...
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 ...
Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion: 1980 to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By David Goodhew
December 09, 2016
The Anglican Communion is one of the largest Christian denominations in the world. Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion is the first study of its dramatic growth and decline in the years since 1980. An international team of leading researchers based across five continents provides a global ...
A Handbook of Chaplaincy Studies: Understanding Spiritual Care in Public Places
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Swift, Mark Cobb, Andrew Todd
September 18, 2015
A Handbook of Chaplaincy Studies explores fundamental issues and critical questions in chaplaincy, spanning key areas of health care, the prison service, education and military chaplaincy. Leading authors and practitioners in the field present critical insight into the challenges and opportunities ...
Towards a Theology of Church Growth
1st Edition
By David Goodhew
May 20, 2015
Concern about church growth and decline is widespread and contentious, yet theological reflection on church growth is scarce. Reflecting on the Bible, dogmatic theology and church history, this book situates the numerical growth of the church within wider Christian theology. Leading international ...
Anglicanism: Confidence, Commitment and Communion
1st Edition
By Martyn Percy
June 10, 2013
This focused concentration and celebration of Anglican life could not be more timely. Debates on sexuality and gender (including women bishops), whether or not the church has a Covenant, or can be a Communion, and how it is ultimately led, are issues that have dominated the ecclesial horizon for ...
Society Shaped by Theology: Sociological Theology Volume 3
1st Edition
By Robin Gill
April 16, 2013
Over the last thirty years a number of theologians have been using aspects of sociology alongside the more traditional resources of philosophy. In turn, sociologists with an interest in theology have also contributed to an interaction between theology and sociology. The time is right to revisit the...
Theology Shaped by Society: Sociological Theology Volume 2
1st Edition
By Robin Gill
September 19, 2012
Theology Shaped by Society argues that the sociology of knowledge can make an important contribution to theology. Part I argues that theology can be seen as a 'socially constructed reality' that is sometimes dangerously related to power but, at other times, that is a positively engaged discipline ...