Notes from a Wayward Son : A Miscellany

This “miscellany” puts readers around the table with a teacher who has provided the church with wisdom and passion and introduces a new voice to the ongoing conversation about the relationship between the gospel and culture. Andrew Walker’s “ecclesial intelligence” and broad interdisciplinary approach to theology and sociology will undoubtedly capture the imagination of many who are curious about the church’s mission in the modern West.
Notes from a Wayward Son represents a broad sampling of Walker’s writings from a distinguished forty-five-year career—from explorations of Pentecostalism and Charismatic Renewal to Eastern Orthodoxy, C. S. Lewis, and Deep Church; from the impact of modernity on the ecclesia to mission and ecumenism in the West today. In a world and a church often driven by the latest fashions, Walker’s is a voice to which we will want to listen!

Andrew G. Walker is Emeritus Professor of Theology, Religion, and Culture at King's College, London.

Andrew D. Kinsey is senior pastor at Grace United Methodist Church, Franklin, Indiana. He was awarded the Pastor-Preacher-Scholar Award by the Wesleyan Theological Society in 2011.

William J. Abraham is Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies and Altschuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, Southern Methodist University, Perkins School of Theology. His previous books include The Logic of Evangelism, The Logic of Renewal, Canonical Theism: A Proposal for Theology and the Church, and Canon and Criterion.