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Suggested Reading for those Exploring their Vocation

Date Added: Friday 10th October 2003

Vocation
John Adair How to Find your Vocation (Canterbury Press 2000)
Stuart Buchanan: On Call (BRF 2001)
Maria Boulding: Touch of God (Triangle 1988)
0s Clarke: 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)
Steve Walton: A Call to Live (Triangle 1994 ) 

Ordained Ministry
Peter Baelz and William Jacob (eds) Ministers of the Kingdom - Exploration in Non Stipendiary
Ministry
(CIO 1985)
Andrew Bowden and Michael West: Dynamic Local Ministry (Continuum 2000)
Michael Bowering (ed): Priesthood Here and Now (Newcastle Diocese 1994)
Wesley Carr: The Priestlike Task (SPCK 1985 )
Andrew Clitherow: Into Your Hands (SPCK: 2001)
Jim Cotter: Yes Minister (Cairns, 1992)
Steven Croft: Ministry in Three Dimensions (DLT 1999)
JohnFinney: Understanding Leadership (Daybreak 1999)
James MM Francis and Leslie J Francis: Tentmaking: Perspectives on Self-Supporting Ministry
(Gracewing 1998)
John Fuller and Patrick Vaughan (eds) Working for the Kingdom (SPCK 1986)
Michael Green: Freed to Serve (Hodder and Stoughton 1983)
Robin Greenwood: Transforming Priesthood (SPCK. 1994)
Robin Greenwood: Transforming Church (SPCK 2002)
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)
Christine Hall and Robert Hannaford (ed): Order and Ministry (Gracewing 1996)
Michael Hollings: Living Priesthood (McCrimmons, 1994)
Basil Hume: Light in the Lord (St Paul's Publications 1991)
Gordon Kuhrt: An Introduction to Christian Ministry (CHP 2000)
Giles Legood: Chaplaincy (Cassell 1999)
M.A.H. Melinsky The Shape of the Ministry (Canterbury Press, 1992)
Christopher Moody: Eccentric Ministry (DLT 1992)
Michael Ramsey: The Christian Priest Today (SPCK 1972)
Alastair Redfern: Ministry and Priesthood (DLT 1999)
Anthony Russell: The Clerical Profession (SPCK. 1980)
Edward Schillebeeckx: Ministry (SCM 1980)
W H Vanstone: Love's Endeavour, Love's Expense (DLT 1978)
W H Vanstone.: Fare Well in Christ (DLT 1997)

Anglicanism
Paul Avis: The Anglican Understanding of the Church (SPCK 2000)
Monica Furlong: C of E: The State it's In (Hodder and Stoughton 2000)
Richard Giles: We Do Not Presume (SPCK 1999)
Alastair Redfern: Being Anglican (DLT 2000)
Stephen Sykes: Unashamed Anglicanism (DLT 1995)
Stephen Sykes: The Integrity of Anglicanism (SPCK 1978)

Spirituality
Stephen Cotterell: Praying Through Life (CHP 1998)
Bruce Duncan: Pray Your Way (DLT 1993)
Michael Paul Gallagher: Letters on Prayer (DLT 1994)
Gerard Hughes: God of Surprises (BRF 1993)
Gerard Hughes: God, Where Are You? (DLT 1997)
Gerard Hughes: Oh God Why? (DLT 2000)
Donald Nicholl: Holiness (DLT 1981)
Henri Nouwen: The Return of the Prodigal Son (DLT 1994)
John Wilkins (Ed): How I Pray (DLT 1993)

Christian Faith and Theology
David Ford: Theology: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 1999)
Anthony and Richard Hanson: Reasonable Belief (OUP 1981)
Alistair McGrath: Christian Theology: An Introduction (Blackwells 2001)
Keith Ward: Christianity: An Short Introduction (SPCK 2000)

Self Knowledge and Pastoral Relationships
Alastair Campbell: Rediscovering Pastoral Care (DLT 1986)
Wesley Carr: Handbook of Pastoral Studies (SPCK 1997)
Malcolm Goldsmith and Martin Wharton: Knowing Me Knowing You (SPCK 1993)
Henri Nouwen: The Wounded Healer (DLT 1994)
Henri Nouwen: Compassion (DLT 1982)
Philip Sheldrake: Befriending Our Desires (DLT 1997)

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