This text is a comprehensive introduction to mission and ministry in the contemporary Church which enables students to prepare for ministry in a changing church within a changing world.

This book offers an unparalleled guide to religion in contemporary Britain. Since 1945 the story of religion in Britain is one of diversity and change. Non-Christian communities have played an increasingly important role, whilst the growth of secularism and the rise of alternative spiritualities have changed both the internal and external religious landscape.

Religion is an important social force, both for good and evil, in the modern world. In the final volume of his comparative theology, Keith Ward considers the main ways in which religion and society interact, and the ways in which major world religions need to adapt themselves in the modern world.

Explores the production of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs', a milestone in the history of the English book.

Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This analysis of beliefs held on different levels of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700.

This third volume in N. T. Wright's magisterial series, Christian Origins and the Question of God

A beautiful book, as beautiful in the simple clarity of its wisdom as in the terrible beauty of the transformation to which it calls us. -- New Oxford Review

The complete book of Revelation, with an original introduction by Robert Beckford.

This ground--breaking commentary on The Revelation to John (the Apocalypse) reveals its far--reaching influence on society and culture, and its impact on the church through the ages. * Explores the far--reaching influence of the Apocalypse on society and culture. * Shows the booka s impact on the Christian church through the ages.

Julian of Norwich is one of the subtlest writers and profoundest thinkers of the Middle Ages, and the earliest woman writer in English. Her Revelations describe a loving and merciful God and a positive vision of humanity. This sensitive new translation conveys the poise and serenity of her style, and includes the two versions of her text.

Do you want to make a true difference in the world? Dr. Ron Sider does. He has, since before he first published Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger in 1978. Despite a dramatic reduction in world hunger since then, 34,000 children still die daily of starvation and preventable disease, and 1.3 billion people, worldwide, remain in abject poverty.

A thorough and enlightening examination of the theological writings of the leading Elizabethan divine, rediscovering his contribution to the development of Christian thought.

Black Theology emerged as a response to black consciousness. In South Africa it is a critique of power; in the UK it is a political theology of black culture. The dominant form of Black Theology has been in the USA, originally influenced by Black Power and the critique of white racism. This book offers a critique of Black and Womanist theology.

A new and revealing study of the theology of the English Reformer William Tyndale, emphasising his original writings and showing that his thought owed far less to the Continental Reformers than is widely supposed.

Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland has been regarded as one of the most fascinating monuments to Christian, Templar and Masonic symbolism. Those interested in Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, Christianity and Scottish history, are asking questions as to the origins of the Chapel. This book is based on a research undertaken to answer those questions.

With an introduction by Joanna Trollope.

Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places where the everyday and ordinary meet the spiritual.

In Sacred Witness, Susanne Scholz discusses the wide range of rape texts in biblical literature. Assuming the androcentric nature of these writings, Scholz asks how we may read these texts in order to find some redemptive meaning for women, children, and men who have been injured by sexual violence and by "cultures of rape."

Francis of Assisi: Early Documents is a presentation of Franciscan critical texts, which also offers translations in the light of the latest scholarship.