PhD (Harvard, 1971)
London Mennonite Centre (1979-1991)
Theologian in Residence, Northern Baptist College (1991-1995)
Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, Regent's Park College, Oxford (1996-2000)
Associate Professor of Church History, Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Indiana (2004-2009)
Professor of Church History and Mission, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (2008-2011)
Publications
English Chantries: The Road to Dissolution (Harvard University Press, 1979)
'The Servant is not Greater than His Master": The Anabaptists and the Suffering Church', Baptist Quarterly 29 (1982)
Journey Towards Holiness (Marshall Pickering, 1986)
'The Search for Roots', Anabaptism Today 1 (November 1992)
'Abolishing the Laity: An Anabaptist Perspective on Ordination' in Paul Beasley-Murray (ed.), Anyone for Ordination? (Monarch, 1993)
Worship and Evangelism in Pre- Christendom (Grove, 1995)
'Lessons from Intentional Communities: Mennonite Perspectives', Theology Themes (Autumn 1995)
The Change of Conversion and the Origin of Christendom (Trinity, 1999)
(ed.) with Jane Shaw, Culture and the Nonconformist Tradition (University of Wales, 1999)
'When Anabaptists were Last in the British Isles' in Alan Kreider and Stuart Murray (eds.), Coming Home: Stories of Anabaptists in Britain and Ireland (Pandora, 2000)
'Christ, Culture and Truth-Telling' in Paul Fiddes (ed.), Faith in the Centre: Christianity and Culture (Smyth and Helwys, 2001)
(ed.), The Origins of Christendom in the West (T & T Clark, 2001)
'Changing Patterns of Conversion in the West' in The Origins of Christendom in the West (T & T Clark, 2001)
(ed.) with Donald Hay, Christianity and the Culture of Economics (University of Wales, 2001)
'Military Service in the Church Orders', Journal of Religious Ethics 31.3 (2003), 415-42
(ed.) with Stephen Darlington, Composing Music for Worship (Canterbury Press, 2003)
'Peacemaking in Worship in Syrian Church Orders', Studia Liturgica 34.2 (2004), 177-90
with Eleanor Kreider and Paulus Widjaja, A Culture of Peace: God's Vision for the Church (Good Books, 2005)
'Beyond Bosch: The Early Church and the Christendom Shift', International Bulletin for Mission Research 29.2 (2005)
'West Europe in Missional Perspective: Themes from Mennonite Mission, 1950-2004' in James Krabill et al, Evangelical, Ecumenical and Anabaptist Missiologies in Conversation: Essay in Honor of Wilbert Shenk (Orbis, 2006), 206-215
'Baptism and Catechesis as Spiritual Formation' in Andrew Walker and Luke Bretherton (eds.), Remembering Our Future: Explorations in Deep Church (Paternoster, 2007)
'"They Alone Know the Right Way to Live": The Early Church and Evangelism' in Mark Husbands and Jeffrey P. Greenmail (eds.), Ancient Faith for the Church's Future (IVP, 2008)
with Eleanor Kreider, Worship and Mission After Christendom (Paternoster, 2009)
'Revisiting Identity: Mennonite Reflections on Narrative' in Anthony R. Cross and Ruth Gouldbourne (eds.), Questions of Identity: Studies in Honour of Brian Haymes (Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Studies Vol. 6; Regent's Park College, 2011)
'"Converted" but Not Baptized: Peter Leithart's Constantine Project', Mennonite Quarterly Review 85.4 (October 2011)
'Mission and Violence: Inculturation in the Fourth Century – Basil and Ambrose,' in John Corrie and Cathy Ross (eds.), Mission in Context: Explorations Inspired by J. Andrew Kirk (Ashgate, 2012), 201-216
'Ressourcement and Mission', Anglican Theological Review 96.2 (Spring 2014)
'Patience in the Missional Thought and Practice of the Early Church: The Case of Cyprian of Carthage', International Bulletin of Mission Research 39.4 (2015)
The Patient Ferment of the Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire (Baker, 2016)
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