Books

Books about alternative worship & the emerging church

• Alternative Worship | A resource book & CD-ROM with theoretical and contextual essays about alternative worship
  Jonny Baker & Doug Gay with Jenny Brown | SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05396-0
• Alternative Worship | US edition with new foreword by Sally Morgenthaler
  Jonny Baker & Doug Gay with Jenny Brown | Baker | ISBN 0-8010-9170-5
• Alternative Worship in the Church of England | Alternative Worship theology and practice in the Church of England
  Paul Roberts | Grove Books | ISBN 1-85174-415-0
• The Emerging Church | Postmodern church explained for the mainstream US context
  Dan Kimball | Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-24564-8
• Emerging Churches | In-depth analysis of the missonal theology and praxis of US/UK emerging churches, based on wide-ranging interviews
  Eddie Gibbs & Ryan K Bolger | Baker Academic | ISBN 0-8010-2715-2
• Emerging Worship | Creating worship gatherings for new generations
  Dan Kimball | Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-25644-5
• How [not] to speak of God | From right belief to believing in the right way: an a/theology for the emerging church. Illustrated through 10 transcripts of Ikon services
  Peter Rollins | SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05798-2
• The Out of Bounds Church? | DJs, cybermonks and tour guides - the emerging church around the globe
  Steve Taylor | Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-25904-5
• The Prodigal Project | The theory and practice of Alternative Worship, from its most famous Australasian practitioners. Includes case studies and multimedia CD-ROM
  Mike Riddell, Mark Pierson, Cathy Kirkpatrick | SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05250-6
• Reimagining Spiritual Formation | A week in the life of an experimental church
  Doug Pagitt | Emergent-YS | ISBN 0-310-25687-9
• The Rise and Fall of the Nine O'clock Service | How a famous experiment went tragically wrong
  Roland Howard | Mowbray | ISBN 0-264-67419-7
• Rising from the Ashes | Emerging church in relation to US mainline liturgical denominations, through interviews with leading practitioners and thinkers
  Becky Garrison | Seabury Books | ISBN 978-1-59627-062-6
• Refreshing Worship | An accessible guide to the whys and hows of Alternative Worship, from the originators of Labyrinth
  Kevin & Brian Draper | Bible Reading Fellowship | ISBN 1-84101-146-0

Resources

• Alternative Worship | The widest collection yet of new worship material, from many of alt.worship's most creative groups and individuals. Includes multimedia resources on CD-ROM, and background essays to give context
  Jonny Baker & Doug Gay with Jenny Brown | SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05396-0
• Alternative Worship | US edition with new foreword by Sally Morgenthaler
  Jonny Baker & Doug Gay with Jenny Brown | Baker | ISBN 0-8010-9170-5
• Multi-Sensory Church | Ready-to-use ideas for creative worship using, art, liturgies, rituals
  Sue Wallace | Scripture Union | ISBN 1-85999-667-1
• Multi-Sensory Prayer | Creative prayer ideas using, art, the body, the senses
  Sue Wallace | Scripture Union | ISBN 1-85999-465-2
• The Prodigal Project | The theory and practice of Alternative Worship, from its most famous Australasian practitioners. Includes case studies and multimedia CD-ROM
  Mike Riddell, Mark Pierson, Cathy Kirkpatrick | SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05250-6
• Soul Shaper | Exploring spirituality & contemplative practices in youth ministry
  Tony Jones | Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-25101-X
• Tune In Chill Out | Using contemplative prayer in youthwork. Includes multimedia CD-ROM.
  Jenny Baker & Moya Ratnayake | Christian Education Publications | ISBN 1-904024-60-2

Books about the wider context

• Ancient Future Faith | Rethinking evangelicalism for a postmodern world
  Robert Webber | Baker | ISBN 0-8010-6029-X
• Aqua Church | Transforming church for a postmodern world
  Leonard Sweet | Group | ISBN 0-7644-2151-4
• Christi-Anarchy | Recovering the vision of Jesus from the ruins of Christendom
  Dave Andrews | Lion | ISBN 0-7459-4234-2
• A Churchless Faith | Why Christians leave churches while continuing in the faith
  Alan Jamieson | SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05465-7
• The Complex Christ | Signs of emergence in the urban church
  Kester Brewin | SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05669-2
• Jesus in Disneyland | Religion in postmodernity
  David Lyon | Polity | ISBN 0-7456-1489-2
• Liquid Church | New patterns of church in postmodern consumer culture
  Pete Ward | Hendrickson [Paternoster for UK] | ISBN 1-84227-161-X
• Making Sense of Church | Emerging church conversations from TheOoze.com
  Spencer Burke with Colleen Pepper| Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-25499-X
• Mass Culture | New approaches to Holy Communion - chapters by Alternative Worship practitioners Jonny Baker and Mike Riddell
  Pete Ward et al | Bible Reading Fellowship | ISBN 1-84101-069-3
• The McDonaldisation of the Church | Why the Church doesn't reach large parts of our society
  John Drane | Darton Longman & Todd | ISBN 0-232-52259-6
• Mission Implausible | Analysis of the crisis of credibility of the Church in Europe
  Duncan McLaren | Paternoster Press | ISBN 1-8422.7295-0
• Mission-Shaped Church | Church planting and fresh expressions of church in a changing context
  Church House Publishing | ISBN 0-7151-4013-2
• A New Kind of Christian | A tale of two friends on a spiritual journey
  Brian McLaren | Jossey-Bass | ISBN 0-7879-5599-X
• The Post-Evangelical | Why many Christians are rejecting Evangelicalism as previously understood
  Dave Tomlinson | Triangle | ISBN 0-281-04814-2
• The Post-Evangelical | Revised US edition
  Dave Tomlinson | Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-25385-3
• The Post-Evangelical Debate | Responses by UK theologians to The Post-Evangelical
  Graham Cray et al | Triangle | ISBN 0-281-05108-9
• Postmodern Youth Ministry | Exploring postmodernity in the context of Christian youth ministry
  Tony Jones | Zondervan | ISBN 0-310-23817-X
• The Shaping Of Things To Come | Innovation & mission for the 21st century Church
  Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch | Hendrickson ISBN 1-56563-659-7 [USA] Strand ISBN 1-8768-2587-1 [Australia]
• Threshold of the Future | Why the Western Church is in crisis, and what might be done
  Michael Riddell | SPCK | ISBN 0-281-05055-4
• Virtual Faith | The spirituality of Generation X
  Tom Beaudoin | Jossey-Bass | ISBN 0-7879-3882-3

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