Alan Kreider

Biography

Alan Kreider (1941–2017) earned a PhD at Harvard University and served as professor emeritus of church history and mission at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. Kreider also directed the London Mennonite Centre and the Centre for Christianity and Culture at Regent's Park College, Oxford University. Kreider wrote The Patient Ferment of the Early Church (2016), English Chantries (2012), and Social Holiness (2008).

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Becoming Missional

Church Leadership & Ministry

“David Boshart's Becoming Missional makes a significant contribution. Boshart hospitably listens to the experiences of church planters and denominational leaders, all of whom inhabit a post-Christendom culture in which old approaches no longer work. Recognizing anti-missional tendencies in thought and culture, Boshart draws upon social sciences, theology, and hands-on experience to propose approaches for all churches that are story-based, collaborative, and dialogical. Boshart's book is practical, hopeful, and needed. I recommend it highly.”

Disavowing Constantine

Theology

“"A strong-minded, original contribution to the debate about Christian social responsibility in post-Christendom. Nigel Wright expertly evaluates Yoder and Moltmann, mightily wrestles with Anabaptist and Reformed insights, and irenically advocates a position of 'witnessing nonviolence' that will challenge all readers.”

God After Christendom?

Theology

“In this beautiful product of long conversations and deep friendship, Haymes and Gingerich Hiebert demonstrate why Christians cannot sustain a life of peacemaking and discipleship without God. Accessibly, and with solid scholarship and practical wisdom, they give their readers new (old) language to talk about the God who is known in history and mystery, in wonder and worship, and above all in Jesus Christ.”

Recovering the Evangelical Sacrament

Theology

“Carefully using an impressive range of biblical, theological, and historical scholarship, Anthony R. Cross argues that baptism lost the importance it had in the New Testament and pre-Nicene church; but in post-Christendom, baptism's significance is re-emerging. When it embodies New Testament themes of conversion, faith, community, and ethics, baptism once again emerges as a sacrament of untold potential, enriching discipleship and empowering mission. This mature fruit of 'Baptist sacramentalism' offers gifts to Christians of all traditions. I recommend it enthusiastically.”