The crises that Anglicanism faces today can usually be traced to the different ways in which different sides approach the task of doing theology. The questions which arise are not new: how do we interpret Scripture? what authority do we give to Scripture? how much respect do we pay to the way in which Scripture … Continue Reading
Lesslie Newbigin Missionary Theologian: A Reader by Paul Weston SPCK 2006 A Fulcrum review by Jenny Taylor, Director of Lapido Media Part of the secret of the power of Lesslie Newbigin’s writing is in its consistency and coherence. His life and thought form a prophetic whole, not a series of ad hoc fragments. This is … Continue Reading
‘What does Salvation mean in the Urban Context?’, by Jon Kuhrt, Director of Community Mission, Shaftesbury Society Jon KuhrtJon Kuhrt works with people affected by homelessness, offending and chronic addictions at the West London Mission. He, his wife and three children are part of Streatham Baptist Church and he is a member of the Christians … Continue Reading
World Christianities c1914-c2000 Cambridge History of Christianity Vol 9 Editor: Hugh McLeod Cambridge University Press 2006 ISBN: 0521815002 (hardback) Price: £100 (US$180) Fulcrum review by Andrew Wheeler And so the colossal enterprise draws to a conclusion – the 9th volume in the CUP attempt to describe 2000 years of Christian enterprise across the globe. And … Continue Reading
‘City on a Hill’, sermon at the Inauguration of Dr David Wilkinson as Principal of St John’s College, Durham Durham Cathedral, 17 October 2006 by the Bishop of Durham, Dr N. T. Wright It would have been a bold commentator ten years ago, let alone twenty or thirty, who would have predicted that in the … Continue Reading
The Report from the Commission on Urban Life and Faith Church House Publishing / Methodist Publishing House 2006 ISBN 1-85852-315-X click here for further details A Fulcrum Review by Stephen Cox This Report is much needed and very welcome. Its predecessor, the 1985 ‘Faith in the City’ report had a huge impact, lifting the inner … Continue Reading
‘Northern Uganda: Why only faith can end the fighting’ by Dr Jenny Taylor, Director of director of Lapido Media, a worldwide church media consultancy reproduced, with kind permission, from The Church Times 8 September 2006 The unsung churches of northern Uganda have played a crucial part in what could be the best chance of peace … Continue Reading
By Dr Brian Stanley The Ramsden Sermon Preached Before the University of Cambridge on Sunday 4th June 2006 in Great St Mary’s Church by Dr Brian Stanley, Director of the Henry Martyn Centre for the Study of Mission and World Christianity, and Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. ‘Belief in a Divine mission’, wrote Bertrand … Continue Reading
A book review of ‘Letters to Lydia: ‘beloved Persis’, by Barbara Eaton (Hypatia Trust, 2005), by John Martin, Head of Communication, Church Mission Society, Fulcrum Media Secretary and Reader in the Stepney Episcopal Area of the Diocese of London. Hypatia Trust, 2005 paperback, 410 pages, price £12.50 ISBN: 1872229549 Originally published in the Church of … Continue Reading
‘Summing Up and Response at Fulcrum Conference Islington’, by Dr Kirsteen Kim, Chair of the British and Irish Association for Mission Studies and Lecturer at the United College of Ascension, Birmingham Kirsteen KimProf. Kirsteen Kim researches and teaches theology from the perspective of mission and world Christianity, drawing on her experience of Christianity in South … Continue Reading