Inside Alpha: Explorations in Evangelism by James Heard (SEHT, Patenoster, 2009)

December 2, 2009

Based on a 2008 PhD study (KCL) under Luke Bretherton and Andrew Walker.

Foreword – Andrew Walker

Introduction

1.  The Genesis of Alpha

2.  An Outline of Alpha

3.  Literature Review (Martyn Percy, Stephen Brian, Pete Ward, Mark Ireland, Stephen Hunt, Peter Brierley)

4.  Methodology

5.  The Alpha Programme

6. Alpha and the Sociology of Conversion

7. A Theological and Liturgical Critique of Alpha

Conclusion

British Evangelical Identities Past and Present Vol 1: Aspects of the history and sociology of evangelicalism in Britain and Ireland, edited by Mark Smith (SEHT, Paternoster, 2008)

November 12, 2009

Introduction – Mark Smith

1. Evangelicalism and Cultural Diffusion – David Bebbington

2. Understanding Schism: The 1950 Peace Summit between the Student Christian Movement and the Inter-Varsity Fellowship – David Goodhew

3. Evangelicalism in Twentieth-Century Methodism – Martin Wellings

4. Competing Voices: Three Constrating Approaches to the Development of a Distinctive Evangelical Identity among Baptists in Nineteenth-Century Scotland – Brian R. Talbot

5. Evangelicals and the Establishment: Evangelical Identity in Nineteenth-Century Market Town – Rod W. Ambler

6. The Eighteenth-Century Evangelical Revival and Welsh Identity – Eryn M. White

7. ‘A Glorious Morn’?” Methodism and the Rise of Evangelicalism in Wales, 1735-62

8. Evangelical Identity and the Writing of Evangelical History in Northern Ireland – Andrew R. Holmes

9. Black Evangelicals in Darkest Britain 1770s-1930s – David Killingray

10. Ministry, Marriage and Celibacy: The Impact of Marriage on the Public Ministry of Women in British Evangelical Churches 1900-1959 – Rachel Jordan

11. Making Men Men: Masculinity and Contemporary Evangelical Identity – Kristin Aune

12. New Music and the ‘Evangelical Style’ in the Church of England, c.1958-1991 – Peter Webster and Ian Jones

13. Seen to be Remembered: Representation and Recollection in Contemporary British Evangelicalism – John Harvey

14. ‘The Prince of Pastoral Preachers’: The Oxford Sermons of Francis Chavasse – Andrew Atherstone

15. ‘Take My Life’: Evangelical Spirituality and Evangelical Identity – Ian M. Randall

16. The Missionary Statesman and the Missionary Saint: Henry Venn’s Life of Francis Xavier – Mark Smith

Afterword: What’s Right with Evangelicalism? – Derek Tidball

Evangelical Identity and Contemporary Culture: A Congregational Study in Innovation by Matthew Guest (SEHT, Paternoster, 2007)

October 16, 2009

Prologue – First Encounters

Chapter 1 Evangelical Christianity in a Post-Christian World

Chapter 2 Growth and Change: The Evangelical Movement Since the 1960s

Chapter 3 St Michael-le-Belfrey: Blazing the Trail

Chapter 4 Holding the Many Strands Together: Community and Diversity

Chapter 5 Taming the Spirit: Charismatic Experience after the Third Wave

Chapter 6 Innovation at the Margins: The Post-Evangelical Pathway

Chapter 7 Small Group Fellowship: The Experience of Community

Chapter 8 The Bigger Picture

Epilogue St Michael-le-Belfrey Revisited in 2006

Apostolic Networks in Britain by William K. Kay (SEHT, Paternoster, 2007)

June 19, 2009

Foreword – D. Densil Morgan

PART 1: BEGINNINGS

1 The Charismatic Movement and its Spin-offs

2. Restorationism until 1980

PART II: THE NETWORKS

3. Bryn Jones and Covenant Ministries International

4. Terry Virgo and New Frontiers International

5. Barney Coombs and Salt and Light

6. Tony Morton and Cornerstone (c.net)

7. Roger Forster and Ichthus

8. Gerald Coates and Pioneer

9. Stuart Bell and Ground Level

10. Colin Dye and Kensington Temple / London City Church

11. Noel Stranton and the Jesus Fellowship

12. John Wimber and Vineyard

13. Colin Urquhart and Kingdom Faith

14.Hugh Osgood and Churches in Commnuity (CIC)

PART III: CROSSFLOWS

15. The Cell Movement

16. The Toronto Blessing

17. Forty Years at a Glance

PART IV: THE QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS

18. Apostolic Networks: Theology

19. Apostolic Networks: Mission

20. Apostolic Networks: Sociology

PART V: THE QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS

21. The Quantitative Investigation

22. Church Growth and Charismata

23. Non-Charismatic Beliefs

24. Retrospect and Prospect

Worship in the Spirit: Charismatic Worship in the Church of England by James H. S. Steven (SEHT, Paternoster, 2002)

June 19, 2009

Contents

Foreword – Andrew Walker

1. Introduction

2. A History of the Charismatic Renewal in the Chuch of England

3. Methodology

4. Case Study Liturgies

5. Singing God’s Praise

6. ‘Prayer Ministry’

7. A Theological Appraisal

Conclusion

Reinventing English Evangelicalism 1966-2001 by Rob Warner (SEHT, Paternoster, 2007)

June 19, 2009

Contents

Foreword – David Bebbington

Introduction: A Resurgent, Contested Tradition

PART ONE: THE CONVERSIONIST-ACTIVIST AXIS: Late modern charismatic entrepreneurialism in the context of church decline

1. Calverism and the Evangelical Alliance 1982-2001

2 Spring Harvest :A Case Study in Evangelical Exceptionalism

3. Evangelical Trends: Late-Onset Decline

4. Deconstructing the Decade of Evangelism

5. Alpha: A Second Case Study in Evangelical Exceptionalism

6. Sociological Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Evangelicals

PART TWO: THE BIBLCIST-CRUCICENTRIC AXIS: From pre-critical inclusivity to the self-attenuated calvinistic hegemony, and the subsequent emergence of post- and neo-conservatism, with bifurcatory prospects

7. Foundations of Evangelical Ecumenism, 1846-1912

8. EA-1970 and the Conservatice Undertow, 1928-1981

9 Emergent Openness, 1967-1977

10 The Conservative Counter-Trend, 1978-1999

11 Progressive Evangelicals: The Post-Conservative Emergence, 1996-2000

Conclusion: Conflictual Identities: The Dynamics and Trajectories of Evangelical Convictions

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