Church Growth in Britain
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African Pentecostal
Alana Harris
Amy Duffuor
Black Majority Churches
Bob Jackson
British Church
British Church Life
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Christian denominational trends
Church Decline
Church Growth
Church Planting
churches
Claire Mitchell
Colin Marsh
Contemporary Society
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ethnic minority congregations
Faithful Capital
FCI
Fresh Expressions
George Lings
Holy Trinity Brompton
Hugh Osgood
Ian M. Randall
John Wolffe
Kenneth Roxburgh
Local Anglican Church
Lynda Barley
mainline
Mainline Churches
Minority Ethnic
multi-ethnic church expansion Britain
Nigerian Pentecostals
Paul Chambers
Pentecostal Charismatic Church
Pentecostal movements
Rebecca Catto
Redeemed Christian Church
religious demography
Reverse Mission
Richard Burgess
secularisation theory critique
Secularization Thesis
sociology of religion
St Michael Le Belfrey
UK's Immigration Policy
UK’s Immigration Policy
United Reformed Church
University Term Time
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781409425779
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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There has been substantial church growth in Britain between 1980 and 2010. This is the controversial conclusion from the international team of scholars, who have drawn on interdisciplinary studies and the latest research from across the UK. Such church growth is seen to be on a large scale, is multi-ethnic and can be found across a wide range of social and geographical contexts. It is happening inside mainline denominations but especially in specific regions such as London, in newer churches and amongst ethnic minorities. Church Growth in Britain 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 the vitality of large swathes of the Christian church in Britain. Rebalancing the debate in this way requires wholesale change in our understanding of contemporary British Christianity.
David Goodhew is an Anglican priest and Director of Ministerial Practice at Cranmer Hall, an Anglican theological college which is part of St John's College, Durham. A former fellow and chaplain of St Catharine's College, Cambridge and an experienced parish priest, he has published widely in the field of modern British church history and South African history, including the first monograph-length study of a South African township, Respectability and Resistance: a History of Sophiatown
