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SCM Core Texts
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This book provides offers an up-to-date, accessible introduction to one of the core subjects of theology. Written for second and third-year university students, it shows that Christian Doctrine is not a series of impossible claims to be clung to with blind faith. .
Keywords: Doctrine, systematic theology
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This textbook explores Judaism, Christianity and Islam, using compelling examples of how syncretism works and looks, to show how these three religions have adopted customs and conceptions of other religions, most often acquiring practices from pagan predecessors and neighbours.
Keywords: Continental Philosophy, Eastern philosophy, Religious Studies, Philosophy of Religion
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SCM Study Guides
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This accessible guide covers the main areas tackled in introductory New Testament courses, such as the contents and diversity of the New Testament, how the texts came to be written and collected, their relationship to Jesus of Nazareth, and the nature of the canon.
Keywords: Biblical Studies, Exegesis, Interpretation
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This undergraduate textbook provides an introduction to the apparently incompatible subjects of religion and science. Part One explores the nature of god as revealed by scientific miracles. Part Two considers the historical relationship between science and Christian theology.
Apologetics, Science, Theology
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SCM Classics
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The book introduces us to Britain’s poorest housing estates and uses the radical edge of contextual theology to present a prophetic challenge to each one of us, and to a Church which is reluctant to respond seriously to the challenges of the Beatitudes.
Keywords: Ministry, Poverty, Contextual Theology
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More II
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Demonstrating a new and innovative approach to interfaith engagement, this book argues for theological reflection on the multi faith reality of our society to focus on the practice of Christian interfaith engagement, drawing on the tools of contemporary practical theology.
Keywords: Interfaith, Practical Theology, Mission
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This book argues that forms of church should be more determined by our theological traditions than by the surrounding culture, and show that the traditions of the parish church represent ways in which time, space, community are ordered in relation to God and the gospel.
Keywords: Church, Fresh Expressions, Ecclesiology
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More III
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Drawing on the discipline of adult education and his own research into the way people learn, this book explains how churches can become learning communities in which people grow as disciples and find their place in a collaborative pattern of ministry.
Keywords: Church, Discipleship, Learning, Collaborative Ministry
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This book is an introduction to the principles and skills of 'pastoral liturgy'. It offers an overview of the ways that worship can be a means of pastoral care, such as ways that Sunday worship can extend care to those who attend, but is focused on those acts of worship which begin with a particular pastoral need.
Keywords: Worship, Liturgy, Pastoral Care
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MORE IV - April 2020
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This practical handbook - aimed at final year undergraduates, Masters-level students, student ministers, church leaders and policy makers interested in local faith communities - guides readers through the various tools, methods of analysis and research skills needed for studying local churches.
Church, Research
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In The Eucharistic Faith, the first of a significant new systematic theology of the Eucharist, Ralph N. McMichael weaves liturgy and theology together to understand the ways in which theology and Christian faith are, at heart, about the receiving of the gift of Jesus' life in Communion.
Ecclessiology, Worship
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MORE V - Feb 2021
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This collection of essays draws upon the scholarship of eminent academics and practitioners in the field of Pentecostal and Charismatic studies, who together consider the history of pentecostal and charismatic movements, their relationship with mainline Christian churches and their engagement with the social, economic and political world.
Pentecostal, Charismatic
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Reflecting theologically on the nature of leadership at the same time as considering the reality of its practicalities, this Study Guide seeks to call it back to theological essentials, locate it in the unique context of the Church, and then re-address modern pressures and needs from within a decidedly Christian framework.
Leadership, Theology
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Ruth Perrin's landmark study of emerging adults who as teenagers described themselves as Christians, reveals what has happened to this apparently "lost generation" - those who have lost faith altogether, those with a faith but who have withdrawn from the church and those with an ongoing active faith which is nonetheless now broader and deeper than previously.
Faith, Millennials
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Filling a glaring gap in the literature around homiletics, 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.
Preaching, Women
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Drawing on resources from political theologies, and in particular conversation with Graham Ward and Romand Coles, Interrupting the Church's Flow challenges our lazy understanding of receptivity, digging deep to uncover a rich theological seam which has the potential to radically alter how theologians think about what we draw from urban places. It offers a game changing liberative theology rooted not in the global south but from a position of self-critical privilege.
Political Theology
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Joining in with the Spirit is an accessible introduction to mission studies - the history, theology and issues of mission, which is up-to-date and supported by contemporary scholarship. It also offers a theological framework for mission, which applies both globally and locally, to help the reader discern the movement of the Spirit of Christ among the many other spirits of this world.
Spirit, Mission
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Generous Ecclesiology seeks to present a positive theological response to the issues raised by Mission-Shaped Church and For the Parish. The former reminds us that the church is to engage in creative and imaginative ways with our missionary calling. The latter affirms the place of inherited patterns and structures which cannot simply be discarded.
Ecclesiology, Mission
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Postcolonializing God examines how African Christianity especially as a practical spirituality can be truly a postcolonial reality. The book offers thoughts as to how African Christians and by that token others who were colonial subjects, may practice a spirituality that bears the hallmarks of their authentic cultural heritage, even if that makes them distinctly different from Christians from the colonizing nations.
Postcolonialism, Diversity
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Using a new interdisciplinary approach to practical theology, A Rite on the Edge, reflects theologically on the findings of research conducted by Sarah Lawrence into baptism in the Church of England and in English culture more widely, using insights and research methods from corpus linguistics. It offers a profound challenge for those struggling to comprehend how `outsiders' understand baptism.
Baptism, Church
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Written by two experienced teachers working with Readers and supporting Reader ministry, this resource offers a fresh look at Reader ministry and thus a resource for Readers to consider their own specific ministry as well as for those exploring Reader ministry as a possible vocation.
Reader Ministry, Vocation
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This book draws on much that is most vibrant in contemporary theology to develop Christian apologetics for the present day. The contributors are leaders in their fields. They represent a confident approach to theology, grounded in a deep respect for the theological tradition of the Church. They display a perceptive interest in philosophy, and unlike many works of apologetics their interest is in the philosophy of the present day, not only that of previous centuries.
Apologetics, Ethics
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More VI October 2021
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A Preacher's Tale aims to provide not just a theoretical introduction, but a resource that uses sermons in the narrative style to reflect on how to prepare and construct them and how to deliver them effectively in the context of worship. By dramatic story-telling, it invites listeners into enter the text imaginatively and enables them to experience sermons as transformative events.
Preaching, Exposition, Sermon
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Oceanographer Meric Srokosz and the biblical scholar Rebecca Watson offer environmental insights on the sea. They also connect the ocean with other key issues of broader concern-spirituality, economics, chaos, and our place in the world. Each chapter concludes with ideas for discussion and reflection, and for suggested actions in the light of the issues raised.
Spirituality, Identity, Ecological
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Stephen Wright offers a constructive introduction to preaching as an existing and varied practice throughout the church on which it is important to continue to reflect theologically, so that it is executed with developing spirituality, understanding and skill. It discusses the practice of preaching - from its basic theological rationale right through to the dynamics of live communication and its aftermath.
Preaching, Theological Reflection, Spirituality
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Victoria Slater explores the significance of chaplaincy for the mission and ministry of the contemporary Church, discussing the reasons for the recent growth in new chaplaincy roles in the contemporary cultural and church context and providing a theological rationale for chaplaincy along with practical suggestions for the development and support of chaplaincy practice.
Chaplaincy, Mission, Ministry
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Offering a theological and biblical account of depression, Tasia Scrutton considers how depression has been understood and interpreted by Christians and how plausible and pastorally helpful these understandings are. It offers an important and well-informed resource for those with, or preparing for, positions of pastoral responsibility within the Christian Church.
Mental Health, Pastoral, Theology, Biblical
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This commentary looks at foundational themes for the Christian community such as: hope, holiness, suffering, joy, witness, hospitality, exile, resurrection, leadership. Tackling the themes such as: slavery, exile and refugees, patriarchy, hierarchy, oppression, gender justice, and the risk of hospitality.The book engages through commentary and short excursuses, drawing the reader to consider the more difficult questions.
Commentary, Transformation, Bible
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In Fragments for Fractured Times, one of the world's leading feminist practical theologians, Nicola Slee, brings together 15 years of papers, articles, talks and sermons, many of them previously unpublished. Collected from diverse times, places, settings and occasions. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of her writing, Slee demonstrates the richness and variety of feminist practical theological writing.
Feminist Theology, Practical Theology
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The Church is very good at saying all the right things about racial equality. But the reality is that the institution has utterly failed to back up these good intentions with demonstrable efforts to reform. It is a long way from being a place of black flourishing. Unflinching in its critique of the church, Ghost Ship explores the harrowing stories of institutional racism experienced then and now, within the Church of England.
Racism, Bible, Hermeneutics, Black Theology
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Based on his Cadbury lectures delivered in 1967, The Go-Between God is now considered one of the most important works ever written on the Holy Spirit and mission. This famous book is a reminder that the Holy Spirit urges us toward a communal humanity. Taylor's is a message especially pertinent in an age of crushing multinational capitalism and a rising tide of individual greed and fear of the Other.
Holy Spirit, Mission
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Theology in the Contemporary World tries to provide the bewildered and intimidated student with a primer that is at once introductory and incisive; approachable and informative. It will help those training for ministry to recover their fascination for the subject of theology and how it could apply to their future ministry.
Theology, Ministry
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With the dramatic rise in people experiencing a profound sense of anxiety in the face of our dying planet, and a consequent need for churches to be better resourced pastorally and theologically to deal with this threat. Words for a Dying World brings together voices from across the world - from the Pacific islands to the pipelines of Canada, from farming communities in Namibia to activism in the UK.
Public Theology, Ecology, Pastoral
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