Synopses of useful books
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Christianity: fact or fiction?
Prayer and the spiritual life
Leanne Payne: Listening prayer
Ministry in the context of our culture
Roland Allen : Missionary methods - St Paul's or ours?
C Bartholomew and T Moritz: Christ and consumerism - critical reflections on the spirit of our age
David Bosch: Believing in the future
Paul Bayes and Tim Sledge : Mission-shaped parish - traditional church in a changing context
Walter Brueggemann: Biblical perspectives on evangelism
Walter Brueggemann: Finally comes the poet - daring speech for proclamation
Walter Brueggemann: Texts under negotiation - the Bible and postmodern imagination
D A Carson: Becoming conversant with the emerging church
Neil Cole : Organic Church - growing faith where life happens
Graham Cray: Mission-shaped church - church planting and fresh expressions of church
Steven Croft (ed): Mission-shaped questions - defining issues for today's Church
Steven Croft: Transforming communities
John Drane: Faith in a changing culture - creating churches for the next century
John Drane: The McDonaldization of the Church - spirituality, creativity and the future of the church
John Drane: After McDonaldization
John Finney : Emerging evangelism
M Frost & A Hirsch : The Shaping of Things to Come - innovation and mission for the C21st Church
M Frost : Exiles - living missionally in a post-Christian culture
Sally Gaze : Mission-shaped and Rural - growing churches in the countryside
Eddie Gibbs & I Coffey: Church next
Eddie Gibbs & Ryan Bolger : Emerging Churches - creating Christian community in postmodern cultures
Os Guinness: Finding the truth - living free in a world of lies, hype and spin
Os Guinness: Prophetic Untimeliness - a challenge to the idol of relevance
Susan Hope : Mission-shaped Spirituality - the transforming power of mission
John Hull : Mission-shaped church - a theological response
Bob Jackson : Hope for the Church - contemporary strategies for growth
Alan Jamieson : A Churchless faith - faith journeys beyond the churches
Philip Jenkins: The next Christendom - the coming of global Christianity
Gerard Kelly: Getting a grip on the future without losing your hold on the past
Robert Lewis : The Church of irresistible influence
Brian McLaren : A Generous Orthodoxy
Alison Morgan : The Wild Gospel - bringing truth to life
Michael Moynagh : emergingchurch.intro
Stuart Murray : Church after Christendom
Lesslie Newbigin: Foolishness to the Greeks - the gospel and western culture
Lesslie Newbigin: The Gospel in a pluralist society
James Thwaites : The Church beyond the Congregation
Miroslav Volf : Free of Charge - giving and forgiving in a culture stripped of grace
Rowan Williams: Lost icons - reflections on cultural bereavement
Tom Wright : Simply Christian
Renewal of the Church for mission
William Abraham: The Logic of Renewal
Josephine Bax: The Good Wine - spiritual renewal in the Church of England
Raniero Cantalamessa : Come, Creator Spirit
Raniero Cantalamessa : The Mystery of God's Word
Mark Cartledge : Encountering the Spirit - the charismatic tradition
Jose Comblin : The Holy Spirit and Liberation
John Finney: Fading Splendour? A new model of renewal
Brian Hathaway : Beyond renewal - the kingdom of God
Walter Kaiser : Revive us again - Biblical insights for encouraging spiritual renewal
William Kay: Personality and Renewal
Alison Morgan : Renewal - what is it, and what is it for?
Simon Ponsonby : More
Tom Smail et al: Charismatic renewal - the search for a theology
Howard A Snyder : Radical renewal - the problem of wineskins today
Jean-Jacques Suurmond: Word and Spirit at play
Ministry in Africa
Basil Davidson : The Africans - an entry to cultural history
Vincent Donovan : Christianity Rediscovered - an epistle from the Masai
Mary Kingsley : Travels in West Africa, 1897
Matthew Parris: As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God (a Times article)
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