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  • An Advent Manifesto
    Martyn Percy
    The message of the kingdom of God: an ecology of equality and peace, and an economy of justice. Hope from beyond, sent to the present, is what Advent asks us to reckon with. Hope consists of God’s jump leads sent from the future through time and space, wired right into our present pains, panics, and predicaments. How can the light of Christ illuminate this present darkness? Thi...
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    12,07 €

  • The Precarious Church
    Martyn Percy
    What is the biggest threat facing churches today? Not enough young people? Too little mission and evangelism? Unsustainable buildings? Unappealing styles of worship? Not enough diversity? Whatever the reasons, the church today seems to exist in a state of anxiety, concerned with its self-preservation. In this bold and hopeful book, Martyn Percy argues that a being a broken chur...
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    39,50 €

  • The Spirit of Witness
    Martyn Percy
    The term ’witness’ has become synonymous with evangelism, but true witnessing is usually found in dissenting: it refuses to bow to idols, or to take the easy road, or deny Christ and all he died for. This collection is rooted in that belief that having the mind of Christ means we will do things differently.It offers practical resources for pastoral care that celebrates people o...
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    38,86 €

  • Engaging with Contemporary Culture
    Martyn Percy
    Theology and the churches are often considered to be at the margins of contemporary culture, frequently struggling for identity and attention. In this important new book Martyn Percy argues that a rich form of practical theological engagement is needed if the churches are to comprehend their situation in the modern world, thereby enabling them to e ...
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    82,61 €

  • The Humble Church
    Martyn Percy
    In this bold and provocative invitation, Martyn Percy imagines what the post-pandemic Church might look like and sets out what it needs to learn. It argues that the Church needs to stop obsessing about itself - its size, its strategies to shore up decline, its waning public influence - and rediscover how to live as the body of Christ. In other words, what does it need to do in ...
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    32,33 €

  • The Wisdom of the Spirit
    Martyn Percy / Pete Ward
    In this ground-breaking book exploring Christianity and contemporary culture, internationally-renowned scholars interface with the legacy of Andrew Walker’s work and look forward in their own predictions of trends. Following Walker’s special interests in house churches, charismatic renewal, culture and faith, this book picks up on these themes and ...
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    90,93 €

  • Untamed Gospel
    Martyn Percy
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    36,41 €

  • The Future Shapes of Anglicanism
    Martyn Percy
    To many people, the Church of England and worldwide Anglican Communion has the aura of an institution that is dislocated and adrift. Buffeted by tempestuous and stormy debates on sexuality, gender, authority and power - to say nothing of priorities in mission and ministry, and the leadership and management of the church - a once confident Anglicanism appears to be anxious and v...
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    82,80 €

  • The Salt of the Earth
    Martyn Percy
    This is a sparkling collection of essays by one of Britain’s best-known and acute commentators of the church scene and of contemporary religious life. Martyn Percy explores new liberalism, the churches and human rights in the European Union, football and religion, pilgrimage, demonology, common spirituality, religious attitudes to nudity, and the relationship between religion a...
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    192,75 €

  • Calling Time
    Martyn Percy
    This collection of essays examines responses to the Millennium and whether or not the year 2000 could be claimed as a specifically Christian time. It also considers how other religions reacted to the moment and what millennial celebrations reveal about religion in a secular age. ...
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    193,38 €

  • The Wisdom of the Spirit
    Martyn Percy / Pete Ward
    In this ground-breaking book exploring Christianity and contemporary culture, internationally-renowned scholars interface with the legacy of Andrew Walker’s work and look forward in their own predictions of trends. Following Walker’s special interests in house churches, charismatic renewal, culture and faith, this book picks up on these themes and also looks more broadly at top...
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    301,94 €

  • Curacies and How to Survive Them
    Beaumont Stevenson / Martyn Percy / Matthew Caminer
    It is common knowledge that many curacies run into difficulties and that this is something people often feel constrained from discussing openly. Curacies and How to Survive Them offers readers the opportunity to listen in on a series of fast-flowing conversations between a psychologist, a theologian and a clergy spouse, which explore frequently occurring dilemmas and challenges...
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    16,93 €

  • The Bright Field
    Martyn Percy
    Covering the liturgical year outside Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter, this collection of reflections, readings, poems and prayers focuses on the life and ministry of Jesus - the rich subject matter of the lectionary readings during Ordinary Time. In addition it includes meditations by Rowan Williams and others for the major feasts of Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity, Transfigur...
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    42,86 €

  • Thirty Nine New Articles
    Martyn Percy
    Thirty Nine New Articles offers a vision of a fresh, generous, contemporary Anglican faith and life. Inspired by the original Thirty Nine Articles of Religion, the Church of England’s historic statement of belief, it explores thirty-nine beliefs and practices that characterize Anglicanism today and the issues it grapples with. Recognizing difference and urging generosity of spi...
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    37,80 €

  • Anglicanism
    Martyn Percy
    Martyn Percy highlights how rich and reflexive the Anglican tradition can be in living and proclaiming the gospel of Christ. This book offers some sharply-focused snapshots of contemporary Anglicanism, and cover many of the crucial issues affecting Anglicans today, such as the nature of mission and ministry, theological training and formation, and ecclesial identity and leaders...
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    301,87 €

  • The Ecclesial Canopy
    Martyn Percy
    Seeking to dynamically alter the way that theologians, ecclesiologists, students of religion and ministers look at the relationship between church and society, this book explores how oft-overlooked issues are in fact highly significant for the shaping of theological and ecclesiological horizons. Building on the concepts of implicit and invisible religion, Percy offers a fresh a...
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    88,17 €

  • The Ecclesial Canopy
    Martyn Percy
    Seeking to dynamically alter the way that theologians, ecclesiologists, students of religion and ministers look at the relationship between church and society, this book explores how oft-overlooked issues are in fact highly significant for the shaping of theological and ecclesiological horizons. Building on the concepts of implicit and invisible religion, Percy offers a fresh a...
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    301,89 €

  • Darkness Yielding
    Jim Cotter / Martyn Percy / Sylvia Sands
    This rich resource of ready to use liturgies and reflections for the richest seasons of the Christian year sold out within a year. Its timeless qualities found a ready and eager readership among all looking for fresh inspiration for these annual celebrations. This new edition includes extra seasonal reflections from Rowan Williams and Martyn Percy, and a new liturgy for Maundy ...
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    39,75 €

  • Shaping the Church
    Martyn Percy
    Shaping the Church seeks to dynamically alter the way that theologians, ecclesiologists, students of religion and ministers look at the church. Taking the ideas of composition, formation and vocation as basic ecclesial categories, Martyn Percy explores how apparently innocent and incidental material is in fact highly significant for the shaping of theological and ecclesiologica...
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    88,33 €

  • Shaping the Church
    Martyn Percy
    Shaping the Church seeks to dynamically alter the way that theologians, ecclesiologists, students of religion and ministers look at the church. Taking the ideas of composition, formation and vocation as basic ecclesial categories, Martyn Percy explores how apparently innocent and incidental material is in fact highly significant for the shaping of theological and ecclesiologica...
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    302,05 €

  • Clergy
    Martyn Percy
    Clergy: The Origin of the Species explores the origins and development of the clergy and offers a study of a profession that, although mostly confined to clerics in the Church of England, will nonetheless have implications for students of cultural studies, social theory, pastoral studies, theological and religious studies. The book uses insights from Darwin and Foucault to char...
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    68,20 €

  • Why Liberal Churches are Growing
    Ian Markham / Martyn Percy
    Why Liberal Churches are Growing is a fascinating journey through different case studies, social science reflection, and theological analysis. The contributors include sociologists, theologians, and practical theologians. The book has four sections. The first, ’defining themes’, looks at the social justice witness (community organizing), church growth as conversational, and t...
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    129,78 €

  • Engaging with Contemporary Culture
    Martyn Percy
    Theology and the churches are often considered to be at the margins of contemporary culture, frequently struggling for identity and attention. In this important new book Martyn Percy argues that a rich form of practical theological engagement is needed if the churches are to comprehend their situation in the modern world, thereby enabling them to engage more confidently with so...
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    267,91 €

  • Power and the Church
    Martyn Percy
    Employing insights from theology, sociology and political science, this text considers the question of power within the Church, which is thought to provide the key to unlocking core dilemmas in the Church’s self-understanding, and to point towards a relevant ecclesiology for the 21st century. The book shows how different denominations handle power in different ways, exposes the...
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    175,21 €