Product Description: This book is a dialogue between the present and the past - for the sake of the future. Ten years after the publication of "Methodism and the Future" a new generation of scholars and church leaders reflect on the tradition that they have inherited.

Product Description: Theological education, the preparation and formation of men and women for ministry, ordained and lay, has changed dramatically in the last thirty years. In this comprehensive and challenging book, a broad range of contributors, all themselves practitioners of theological education, discuss the fundamental question of what it means to be called by God and by the Church...read more

At a time when power-point presentations seem to be calling the art of preaching into question, this book demonstrates the value of a well crafted sermon and the creative potential inherent in the traditions of world Methodism. It also includes a collection of sermons from Methodist preachers and leaders from around the world.

Children and childhood are among the most neglected subjects of Christian theology. This collection of essays draws together authors from a range of backgrounds and theological disciplines and discusses the importance of children and childhood. It concludes with an exploration of the interdependence of biological and spiritual childhood.

Product Description: Methodism is suffering an identity crisis. With great uncertainty about the future, owing to declining numbers and a relationship with the Church of England which seems to be getting closer, a collection of the finest theological minds in contemporary Methodism have written a book which shows how recent Methodist theology can be a resource for the future...read more