Vocations
Reading List
This is a very comprehensive list. Please take advice about what to read. To begin with, visit http://www.cofe-ministry.org.uk and follow links to ‘Ministry in the Church of England’.
Vocation
Aveyard and Muir: Fit for the Purpose St Johns Nottingham Extension Studies 1997
John Adair How to Find your Vocation (Canterbury Press 2000)
Maria Boulding: Touch of God (Triangle 1988)
Stuart Buchanan: On Call (BRF 2001)
Ben Campbell Johnson: Hearing God’s Call: Ways of Discernment for Laity and Clergy (Eerdmans/Alban Books, 2002)
Os Clark: The Call (Spring Harvest 2001)
Francis Dewar: Called or Collared (new edition SPCK 2000)
Francis Dewar: Invitations: God’s Calling for Everyone (SPCK 1996)
Francis Dewar: Live for a Change (DLT 1988)
Henri Nouwen: The Road to Daybreak (DLT 1989)
Helen Thorp: When the Church Says 'No' (Grove Books 2004)
Brian McLaren: A New Kind of Christian Jossey-Bass ISBN 0-7879-5599-X
Henri Nouwen: The Road to Daybreak (DLT 1989)
Malcolm Torry: Diverse Gifts (Canterbury Press – ISBN 1-85311-696-3)
Ordained Ministry
Paul Avis: A Minsitry shaped by Mission (T&T Clark 2005)
Liz and Andrew Barr: Jobs for the Boys? Women who became priests (Hodder & Stoughton 2001)
Timothy Biles: Churchwardens I have buried. (Sarum College Bookshop, bookshop@sarum.ac.uk )
Andrew Bowden and Michael West: Dynamic Local Ministry (Continuum 2000)
Rosalind Brown: Being a Deacon Today (Canterbury Press 2005)
Michael Bowering (ed): Priesthood Here and Now (Newcastle Diocese 1994)
Wesley Carr: The Priestlike Task (SPCK 1985)
Andrew Clitherow: Into Your Hands (SPCK 2001)
Christopher Cocksworth &Rosalind Brown: Being a Priest Today (Canterbury Press 2002)
Jim Cotter: Yes Minister (Cairns, 1992)
Steven Croft: Ministry in Three Dimensions (DLT 1999)
James MM Francis and Leslie J Francis: Tentmaking: Perspectives on Self-Supporting Ministry (Gracewing 1998)
Robin Greenwood: Transforming Priesthood (SPCK. 1994)
George Guiver (ed): The Fire and the Clay (SPCK 1993)
George Guiver (ed): Priests in a People's Church (SPCK 2001)
Rod Hacking: On the Boundary (Canterbury Press 1990)
Michael Hollings: Living Priesthood (McCrimmons, 1994)
Basil Hume: Light in the Lord (St Paul’s Publication, 1991)
David Ison: The Vicar’s Guide: Life and Ministry in the Parish (CHP 2005)
Gordon Kuhrt: An Introduction to Christian Ministry (CHP 2000)
Gordon Kuhrt: Ministry Issues for the Church of England – Mapping the Trends (CHP 2001)
Penny Jamieson: Living at the Edge (Mowbray 1997)
Giles Legood: Chaplaincy (Cassell 1999)
Christopher Moody: Eccentric Ministry (DLT 1992)
Henri Nouwen: In the Name of Jesus (DLT 1997)
John Pritchard: The Life and Work of a Priest (SPCK 2008)
Michael Ramsey: The Christian Priest Today (SPCK 1972)
Alastair Redfern: Ministry and Priesthood (DLT 1999)
Christina Rees (ed): Voices of this Calling (Canterbury Press 2002)
Anthony Russell: The Clerical Profession (SPCK 1980)
WH Vanstone: Love’s Endeavour, Love’s Expense (DLT 1978)
John Witcome: The Curate’s Guide: From Calling to First Parish (CHP 2005)
www.freshexpressions.org.uk
DVD and booklet: On the edge (for Ordained Pioneer Ministry) (see fresh expressions web-site)
www.dace.org for information on permanent Diaconate
Spirituality
Simon Barrington-Ward & Brother Ramon: Praying the Jesus Prayer Together (BRF 2001)
Stephen Cotterell: Praying Through Life (CHP 1998)
Richard Foster: A Celebration of Discipline
Michael Paul Gallagher: Letters on Prayer (DLT 1994)
Gerard Hughes: God of Surprises (BRF 1993)
Gerard Hughes: God in all Things (Hodder & Stoughton 2003)
William Johnstone: Being in Love: The Practice of Christian Prayer (Fordham University Press 1999)
Melvyn Matthew: Both Alike to Thee: The Retrieval of the Mystical Way (SPCK 2000)
Alister McGrath: Roots that refresh (Hodder & Stoughton 1991)
Donald Nicholl: Holiness (DLT 1981)
Henri Nouwen: The Return of the Prodigal Son (DLT 1994)
JI Packer: Knowing God
John Wilkins (ed): How I Pray (DLT 1993)
Rowan Williams: The Wound of Knowledge (DLT 1990)
W H Vanstone: Love's Endeavour, Love's Expense (DLT 1978)
W H Vanstone: Fare Well in Christ (DLT 1997)
W H Vanstone: The Stature of Waiting (DLT 1982)
Stephen Verney Water into Wine (Fount 1995)
SPCK Library of Spirituality – any
Grove Booklets on Spirituality - any
Anglicanism
Paul Avis: The Anglican Understanding of the Church (SPCK 2000)
Colin Buchanan: Is the Church of England Biblical?(DLT 1998)
Steven Croft: Transforming Communities (DLT 2002)
Monica Furlong: C of E: The State it’s in (Hodder & Stourton 2000)
Richard Giles: How to be an Anglican (Canterbury Press 2003)
Robin Greenwood: Transforming Church (SPCK 2002)
Bob Jackson: Hope for the Church (CHP 2002)
Michael Nazir-Ali: Shapes of the Church to Come (Kingsway 2001)
Alastair Redfern: Being Anglican (DLT 2000)
Stephen Sykes: Unashamed Anglicanism (DLT 1995)
Stephen Sykes: The Integrity of Anglicanism (SPCK 1978)
Malcolm Torry (ed): The Parish, People, Place and Ministry (Cant Press 2004)
Mission-shaped Church/Parish/Children (Church House Publishing 2004)
Christian Faith and Theology
Christina Baxter: Wounds of Christ (Zondervan 2005)
Stephen Cottrell: I Thirst (Zondervan 2003)
David Ford: Theology: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 1999)
Anthony and Richard Hanson: Reasonable Belief (OUP 1981)
Brian Hebblethwaite: The Essence of Christianity (SPCK 1996)
Alistair McGrath: Christian Theology: An Introduction (Blackwells 2001)
Keith Ward: Christianity: An Short Introduction (SPCK 2000)
Rowan Williams: On Christian Theology (Blackwell 1999)
Rowan Williams: Open to Judgement (DLT 1994)
Rowan Williams: Lost Icons (T&T Clark 2000)
Self Knowledge and Pastoral Relationships
Jennifer Beresford: Creating Confidence in Women (SPCK1998)
Alastair Campbell: Rediscovering Pastoral Care (DLT 1986)
Wesley Carr: Handbook of Pastoral Studies (SPCK 1997)
Francis Dewar: Live for a Change (DLT 1988)
Malcolm Goldsmith and Martin Wharton: Knowing Me Knowing You (SPCK 1993)
Vanessa Herrick and Ivan Mann "Jesus Wept: Reflections on Vulnerability in Leadership" (DLT 1998 )
Michael Jacobs: Swift to Hear (SPCK 2000)
Michael Jacobs: Still Small Voice (SPCK 2001)
Antony de Mello: Awareness (Fount 1990)
Henri Nouwen: The Wounded Healer (DLT 1994)
Henri Nouwen: Compassion (DLT 1982)
M Scott Peck: The Road less Travelled (Rider re-issued 2003)
Philip Sheldrake: Befriending Our Desires (DLT 1997)
For your other half
Sarah Meyrick: Married to the Ministry (Triangle 2000)
Adey Grummet: Suddenly he thinks he’s a Sunbeam (Triangle 2000)
Mission and Evangelism
Paul Bayes: Mission-shaped Church – Missionary Values, Church Planting and Fresh Expression of Church (Grove Booklet Ev67, 2004)
Mike Booker and Mark Ireland: Evangelism: Which Way Now? (CHP 2003)
Vincent J Donovan: Christianity Rediscovered (SCM 1978)
Andrew Kirk: What is Mission? (DLT 2002)
Mission Theological Advisory Group: Presence and Prophecy (CHP 2002)
Mission and Public Affairs: Mission-Shaped Church (CHP 2004)
Ann Morisy: Journeying Out – A New Approach to Christian Mission (Morehouse 2004)
John Spong: Why Christianity must change or die (Harper San Francisco 1999)
General Synod Mission-shaped Church (CHP 2004)
Novels
Susan Hill: The Risk of Darkness, Pure in Heart, The Various Haunts of Men
Salley Vickers: Mr Golightly’s Holiday