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As human beings, is our nature simply England? Is there such a thing as a “northern gospel”? biological? What is the place of philosophy and theology in determining our self-understanding? Are we dependent on Rooms and Wort analyse what the North actually is, and our relationships with one another? Are we creatures created why we need to study our context if we want to understand by God? Is our physical death an end of our being? more about God and God’s ways. They look at the current religious climate in the North where many churches are Twelve leading scholars in fields such as biblical studies, closing. They explore how their detailed research among theology and science address the question of what it is to be northern churches demonstrates a gospel characterized by human, made in the image of God, and thereby make a wide- fragility and freedom, but full of authenticity, community ranging contribution to the field of theological anthropology. and humour. They describe “fuzzy” churches where the boundaries of the church and its worship are less fixed and CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Fuller, David Jasper, Nicholas where there is more of a flow between churches and their Taylor, John Reuben Davies, Trevor Hart, Robert Gillies, John world. They discover that closing churches might provide McLuckie, Harriet Harris, Delyth M. Reid, Margaret B. Adam, the “compost” for what God is doing next. Eric Stoddart, Alison Jasper 3 Religion & Theology COMING SOON COMING SOON BUSKING THE GOSPEL AND DID THOSE FEET Ordained Ministry in The Story and Character Secular Employment of the English Church • James M. M. Francis AD 200–2020 • Patrick Whitworth PAPERBACK (167 pages) ISBN: 978-1-78959-132-3 HARDBACK (c.650 pages) April 2021 • RRP £14 99 ISBN: 978-1-78959-152-1 Rights: worldwide, all languages April 2021 • RRP £40 00 Foreword by Rosalind Brown Rights: worldwide, all languages See p. 34 for full details. ​​From the earliest days of the Christian Church, there have NOT OF THIS been clergy who have earned a living and explored their WORLDVIEW ministry through supporting themselves. However, as the Poetry for the Kingdom Church is developing fresh initiatives in mission, there is Among Us a renewed interest in vocations that unite a sacramental ministry with daily secular life. • Richard Briggs This book on self-supporting ministry focusses specifically on PAPERBACK (112 pages) ordained ministry in secular employment (MSE). It undertakes ISBN: 978-1-78959-158-3 an in-depth theological reflection on MSE, and offers some March 2021 • RRP £9 99 practical help to enable such clergy (and the church generally) Rights: worldwide, all languages to grow in the awareness of the creative scope and potential of this ministry in the contemporary world. See p. 46 for full details. 4 Religion & Theology NEW NEW HONEST SADNESS PRAYING FOR THE EARTH Lament in a Pandemic Age Remembering the • John Holdsworth Environment in our Prayers of Intercession PAPERBACK (166 pages) • Rob Kelsey ISBN: 978-1-78959-161-3 March 2021 • RRP £12 99 PAPERBACK (95 pages) Rights: worldwide, all languages ISBN: 978-1-78959-135-4 February 2021 • RRP £8 99 Rights: worldwide, all languages Foreword by Nicholas Holtam John Holdsworth examines lament as a means of articulating A resource for Christians who believe that environmental faithful incomprehension, and as a resource for what have concerns should be an integral part of the public and private been called communities of honest sadness. He traces the prayers of all Christian people. The book is intended to be development of lament through the Old Testament and used as a supplement to the prayers of intercession in church questions why it is apparently absent from both the New on Sunday, and by individuals in their private prayers, so Testament and much of the life of the Church today, at just that praying for the earth becomes an ‘ordinary’ part of our the point where many think it could be most useful. spiritual and daily life, rather than something that happens on a special occasion. Honest Sadness is written not only from the perspective of lived experience in the wider world in such places as Beirut The book may be used by those who lead the intercessions and Bosnia, but also from the intensely painful personal of the Church, by groups of Christians whenever they pray experience of the author’s own bereavement. It is of interest together, and by individual Christians in their personal prayers. to all who are reflecting theologically seriously on our times, or supporting others in doing so. ROB KELSEY is Vicar of Norham and Priest in Charge of Carham, Cornhill and Branxton in the Diocese of Newcastle. 5 Religion & Theology NEW NEW CHRISTIAN AND SIKH PRIESTS IN A Practical Theology SECULAR WORK of Multiple Religious Participating in the Participation “Missio Dei” • John Barnett • Jenny Gage PAPERBACK (204 pages) PAPERBACK (207 pages) ISBN: 978-1-78959-145-3 ISBN: 978-1-78959-142-2 January 2021 • RRP £19 99 December 2020 • RRP £14 99 Rights: worldwide, all languages Rights: worldwide, all languages Foreword by Stephen Pattison The traditional Western model of people identifying with Priests in secular work (PSW) have a specific vocation, a single religion is increasingly coming under challenge.