How Christian are the English? How English is their Christianity? These questions are probed by Nigel Rooms in a book which is both readable and scholarly. If England is a mission field, how is Christian faith to be understood by the English? And how are English Christians to become aware of the links and the tensions between their own culture and their faith? This book is important reading for Christians in search of self-understanding, for all who seek for a renewal of Christian faith in England, and for the many English people who are curious about the part that Christian faith continues to play in the national culture.' John M. Hull, Emeritus Professor of Religious Education, University of Birmingham

Nigel Rooms

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1. Inculturation – or integrating faith and culture

2. Englishness

3. Doing inculturation in England

4. Robin Hood – a foundational English story

5. English inculturation – face to face and eye to eye?

6. Mission in England as if culture matters

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What does it mean to be an English Christian? How can the Gospel speak to the English? This book will help readers to understand how to spread the Gospel to a people who are by nature reserved and private.

What does it mean to be an English Christian? Many Christians are aware of the need to adapt the presentation of the gospel to different cultures ('inculturation') in their overseas mission activity, but how can the gospel best be presented to those at home? What happens when the principles of inculturation are applied to English culture? This book encourages people to think more deeply about the relationship between faith and culture, and to see how the good news can most effectively be brought to the English.

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Nigel Rooms, now Director of Ministry and Mission in the Diocese of Southwell, previously spent 7 years as a CMS mission partner working in the Diocese of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, where he developed a theological education programme. Putting together his experience of adult education and of working in another culture, Nigel has now come up with a fascinating way of helping people and churches become more aware of that most difficult of things – their own cultural assumptions. Drawing on recent writings on ‘Englishness’, Nigel has put together an imaginative six week course entitled ‘How can we be English and Christian?’, of which this book contains a summary. Starting with 6 core ‘sayings’ each of which sums up one characteristic of Englishness, Nigel offers a gentle and open-ended examination of what it is in our culture which both enables and inhibits our ability to live out our Christian faith in today’s world. How much of the way your church does things is Christian and how much is just English? Do the course and find out….

The Faith of the English

Faith of the English

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