Church Growth in Britain : 1980 to the Present
- Author
- Goodhew, David, 1965-
- Published
- Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2012.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (280 pages).
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- Series
- Contents
- Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction; 1 Church Growth in Britain, 1980 to the Present Day; Part II Mainstream Churches; 2 Anglican Resurgence: The Church of England in London; 3 Devout East Enders: Catholicism in the East End of London; 4 Baptist Growth in England; 6 Reverse Mission: from the Global South to Mainline Churches; Part III New Churches; 7 The Rise of Black Churches; 8 African Pentecostal Growth: the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Britain; 9 Moving Up and Moving Out?: The Expansion of a London-based 'African Pentecostal' Church. and 10 A History of Fresh Expressions and Church Planting in the Church of England11 From the Margins to the Mainstream: New Churches in York; 12 The Diversification of English Christianity: The Example of Birmingham; Part IV Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; 13 Growth Amidst Decline: Edinburgh's Churches and Scottish Culture; 14 Economic Factors in Church Growth and Decline in South and South West Wales; 15 Northern Irish Protestantism: Evangelical Vitality and Adaptation; Conclusion: The Death and Resurrection of Christianity in Contemporary Britain; Select Bibliography; Index.
- Summary
- Church Growth in Britain is the work of an international team of scholars. It provides a forceful critique of the notion of secularisation which dominates much of academia and the media - and which conditions the thinking of many churches and church leaders. This book demonstrates that, whilst decline is happening in some parts of the church, this needs to be balanced by recognition of church growth amongst large swathes of the Christian church in Britain. Rebalancing the debate in this way requires wholesale change in our understanding of contemporary British Christianity.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781409425786
1409425789
9781409425779
1409425770
9781409425762
1409425762 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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