God at Ground Level : Reappraising Church Decline in the UK Through the Experience of Grass Roots Communities and Situations

Peter Cruchley-Jones

ISBN 10: 3631574940 / ISBN 13: 9783631574942

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang, 2007

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is a collection of essays offering analysis of the experience of contemporary Christianity in the UK 'from below', from the perspectives of real situations and people. The authors come from a range of traditions, 'evangelical' to 'liberal' to Catholic, but all from within the practise and discipline of missiology/anthropology. God at Ground Level aims to discern new insights into the contemporary missiological, theological and ecclesiological debate of today's church. The crisis of contemporary Christianity is certainly recognised, for it is experienced deeply by many of the contributors to this project. But, each contributor also reveals signs of adaptation to the demands laid on contemporary Christianity that challenge the dominant narrative about church decline. This gives way to a lively, thoughtful and, sometimes, controversial series of perspectives on God and contemporary church that gives us another route into the debates of Christianity, Western culture and Mission.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: God at Ground Level : Reappraising Church Decline in the UK Through the Experience of Grass Roots Communities and Situations
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631574940
• ISBN 13: 9783631574942
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 8D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 8 millimeters depth
• Weight: 192 grams

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Synopsis

This book is a collection of essays offering analysis of the experience of contemporary Christianity in the UK ‘from below’, from the perspectives of real situations and people. The authors come from a range of traditions, ‘evangelical’ to ‘liberal’ to Catholic, but all from within the practise and discipline of missiology/anthropology. God at Ground Level aims to discern new insights into the contemporary missiological, theological and ecclesiological debate of today’s church. The crisis of contemporary Christianity is certainly recognised, for it is experienced deeply by many of the contributors to this project. But, each contributor also reveals signs of adaptation to the demands laid on contemporary Christianity that challenge the dominant narrative about church decline. This gives way to a lively, thoughtful and, sometimes, controversial series of perspectives on God and contemporary church that gives us another route into the debates of Christianity, Western culture and Mission.

About the Author

The Editor: Peter Cruchley-Jones is a minister of the United Reformed Church in full time pastoral ministry in Cardiff (Wales). He is Missiology Tutor at St. Michael’s Church in Wales College, Cardiff and Honorary Research Associate of Cardiff University Theology & Religious Studies Department. He has also devised and led bible study for meetings of the World Council of Churches and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.