BD (LBC, 1972)
PhD (Keele, 1981) 'Evangelical Nonconformist Home Missions, 1796-1901'
1977-1985 Tutor, London Bible College
1985-1990 Minister, Mutley Baptist Church, Plymouth
1990-1991 President of the Baptist Union
1991-1995 Secretary for Evangelism and Mission, Baptist Union of Great Britain
1995-2007 Principal, London School of Theology
Major Publications
___ An Introduction to the Sociology of the New Testament (Paternoster, 1983)
___'On Wooing a Crocodile: An Historical Survey of the Relationship Between Sociology and New Testament Studies', Vox Evangelica 15 (1985), 95-110.
___ Skillful Shepherds: An Introduction to Pastoral Theology (1986)<
___ 'A Response to A Question of Identity' in (ed.) D. Slater, A Perspective on Baptist Identity (Mainstream, 1987)
___ Who are the Evangelicals?: Tracing the Roots of Modern Movements (Marshall Pickering, 1994)
___ 'The Scandal of the Church in the Mission of God's people' in Mission and Meaning, (eds.) A. Billington, A. N. S. Lane & Max Turner (Paternoster, 1995)
___ Builders and Fools: Leadership the Bible Way (IVP, 1999)
___ The Reality is Christ: The Message of Colossians for Today (1999)
___ The Message of the Cross (IVP, 2001)
___ Discerning the Spirit of the Age (Kingsway, 2002)
___ 'The Pilgrim and the Tourist: Zygmunt Bauman and Postmodern Identity' in Craig Bartholomew and Fred Hughes (eds.), Explorations in a Christian Theology of Pilgrimage (Ashgate, 2004)
___ The Message of Leviticus (IVP, 2005)
___ 'Power - "In" and "Upon": A Moody Sermon' in Timothy George (ed.), Mr Moody and the Evangelical Tradition (T & T Clark, 2005)
___ 'A Baptist Perspective on David Wright, What has Infant Baptism done to Baptism', Evangelical Quarterly 78.2 (April 2006)
___ 'Penal Substitution: a Pastoral Apologetic' in Derek Tidball, David Holborn and Justin Thacker (eds.), The Atonement Debate: Papers from the London Symposium on the Theology of Atonement (Zondervan, 2008)
___ Ministry by the Book (IVP, 2008)
___ 'AfterWord: What's Right with Evangelicalism?' in Mark Smith (ed.), British Evangelical Identities Past and Present Volume 1 (Paternoster, 2008)
___ 'Post-war evangelical theology: a generational perspective', Evangelical Quarterly 81.2 (April 2009)
___ 'The Radical Evangelical: A Critical Appreciation' in Pieter J. Lalleman (ed.), Challenging to Change: dialogues with a radical baptist theologian. Essays presented to Dr Nigel G. Wright on his sixtieth birthday(Spurgeon's College, 2009)
___ The Message of Holiness (IVP, 2010)
___ 'Can evangelicals be universalists?', Evangelical Quarterly 84.1 (2012)
___ 'Mainstream: "Far Greater Ambitions" - An Evaluation of Mainstream's Contribution to the Renewal of Deminational Life' in Pieter J. Lalleman et al (eds.), Grounded in Grace: Essays to Honour Ian M. Randall (Spurgeon's College, 2013)
___ with Dianne Tidball, The Message of Women (IVP, 2013)
___ ' "Succession is an Ugly Thing": The Emergence and Development of Free Methodism in Late Twentieth-Century England' in David Bebbington and David Ceri Jones (eds.), Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in the United Kingdom During the Twentieth Century (Oxford, 2013)
___ ''Evangelical Theology After Grenz: Evangelical Theology and Global Evangelicalism' in Derek Tidball, Brian Harris and Jason Sexton (eds.), Revisioning, Renewing and Rediscovering the Triune Center. Essays in Honor of Stanley J. Grenz (Cascade, 2014)
___ 'English Baptists and Home Missions, 1797-1865' in Martin Wellings (ed.), Protestant Nonconformity and Christian Missions (Paternoster, 2014)
___ The Voices of the New Testament (IVP, 2016)
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