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Synopses of useful books

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Christianity: fact or fiction?

G K Chesterton: Orthodoxy
Francis Collins: The language of God – a scientist presents evidence for belief
Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion
Owen Gingerich: God's Universe
John Lennox: God's Undertaker - has science buried God?
Alister McGrath: The Twilight of Atheism
Alison Morgan : The Wild Gospel - bringing truth to life
Alison Morgan : What happens when we die?
Lesslie Newbigin: Proper Confidence - faith, doubt and certainty in Christian discipleship
Nick Spencer: Darwin and God
Nick Spencer & Denis Alexander: Rescuing Darwin - God and evolution in Britain today

 

 

Prayer and the spiritual life

 

Giuseppe Amorth: An Exorcist's story
Neil Anderson: The Bondage breaker
John Dalrymple: Simple prayer
Jack Deere: The Beginner's guide to the gift of prophecy
Jack Deere: Surprised by the voice of God
Gordon Fee: Paul, the Spirit and the people of God
Richard Foster: Life with God - a transforming new approach to Bible reading
Selwyn Hughes : Discovering your spiritual gifts
Francis McNutt: Deliverance from evil spirits - a practical manual
Francis McNutt: Healing
Henri Nouwen: The Wounded healer - ministry in contemporary society
George Otis: The Twilight labyrinth - why does spiritual darkness linger where it does?
John Owen: The Spiritual Gifts

Leanne Payne: Listening prayer 

Leanne Payne: Restoring the Christian soul through healing prayer
Eugene Peterson: The Jesus Way - a conversation in following Jesus
Simon Ponsonby : God inside out - an in-depth study of the Holy Spirit
David Pytches: Come Holy Spirit - learning how to minister in power
David Pytches: Prophecy in the local church
Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI): The Yes of Jesus Christ - Spiritual exercises in Faith, Hope and Love
Mark Stibbe: Know your spiritual gifts
Angela Tilby : The Seven Deadly Sins - their origin in the teaching of Evagrius the hermit
W H Vanstone: The Stature of waiting
John Wimber: Power healing
Michael Yaconelli: Dangerous wonder – the adventure of childlike faith
Philip Yancey : Prayer - does it make any difference?
D Zohar and I Marshall: Spiritual intelligence 

 

 

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

Frederick Buechner : Telling the Truth - the gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale

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

Alan Hirsch: The Forgotten Ways

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

Oliver James: Affluenza - how to be successful and stay sane

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

Mary Jo Leddy: Radical Gratitude

Robert Lewis : The Church of irresistible influence

Brian McLaren : Everything must change

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

Frank Viola: Finding organic church

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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