Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Ethics, Department of Social Studies, West London Institute of Higher Education (1977-1985)
Visiting Research Fellow in Department of Christian Doctrine, King’s College London (1985-1986)
Lecturer in theology and education, a joint appointment in Department of Theology and Religious Studies and the Dept of Education, King’s College London (1990-1993)
Senior Lecturer in Theology and Education, King's College London (1993-1999)
Professor of Theology and Education, King's College London (1999-2011)
Director of the C.S. Lewis Centre (1987-1995) and then Gospel & Culture (1995-1997)
Founding Director of the Centre for Theology, Religion and Culture, King's College London (1995-?)
Series Editor of Deep Church, Paternoster (2004-)
Doctoral Supervisor for Pete Ward (Selling Worship, Paternoster, 2005), James Steven (Worship in the Spirit, Paternoster, 2003), Rob Warner (Reinventing English Evangelicalism, Paternoster, 2007), Kristen Aune, Duncan MacLaren, James Heard (Inside Alpha), Krish Kandiah
Major Works
'The Orthodox Church and the Charismatic Movement' and 'The Theology of the 'Restoration' House Churches' in Strange Gifts? A Guide to Charismatic Renewal, (eds.) David Martin and Peter Mullen (Basil Blackwell, 1983)
'Pentecostal Power: The "Charismatic Renewal Movement" and the Politics of Pentecostal Experience' in Of gods and men: new religious movements in the West (Mercer, 1983)
Restoring the Kingdom: The Radical Christianity of the House Church Movement (1985, 1988, 1989, 1998)
'The Third Schism' in Tony Moss (ed.), In Search of Christianity (Firethorn Press, 1986)
Enemy Territory: The Christian Struggle for the Modern World (Hodder & Stoughton, 1987)
(ed.) Different Gospels: Christian Orthodoxy and Modern Theologies (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988, 1993)
'Under the Russian Cross' in Andrew Walker and James Patrick (eds.), A Christian for All Christians: Essays in Honour of C. S. Lewis (Hodder & Stoughton, 1990, reprinted in 1998 under the title Rumours of Heaven)
Betraying the Gospel (1990)
'The Concept of the Person in Social Science: Possibilities for a Theological Anthropology' in Alasdair I. C. Heron (ed.), The Forgotten Trinity: (3) A Selection of Papers presented to the BCC Study Commission on Trinitarian Doctrine Today (BCC/CCBI, 1991)
'Charismatics on the March', Journal of Contemporary Religion 6.2 (1991) and 7.1 (1992)
'Pluralism and the Privatization of Religion' in Haddon Wilmer (ed.), 20/20 Visions: The Futures of Christianity in Britain (SPCK, 1992)
'Charismatic and Pentecostal Religion' in Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Christian Thought, (ed.) A. McGrath (Blackwell, 1993)
'Notes from a Wayward Son', 'The Devil You Think You Know: Demonology and the Charismatic Movement', 'Miracles, Strange Phenomena, and Holiness' in Charismatic Renewal: In Search of a Theology (SPCK 1993, 1995)
Telling the Story: Gospel, Mission and Culture (SPCK, 1996)
(ed.) with C. Carras, Living Orthodoxy in the Modern World (SPCK, 1996)
'Throughly Modern: Sociological Reflections on the Charismatic Movement from the End of the Twentieth Century' in Charismatic Christianity: Sociological Perspectives, (eds.) S. Hunt et al (Macmillian, 1997)
(ed.) with Lawrence Osborn, Harmful Religion: An Exploration of Religious Abuse (SPCK, 1997)
(ed.) with Martyn Percy, Restoring the Image: Essays in Honour of David Martin (Sheffield Academic Press, 2000)
'"Our Unspeakable Comfort": Irving, Albury, and the Origins of the Pre-tribulation Rapture' in Stephen Hunt (ed.), Christian millenarianism: from the early church to Waco (C. Hurst & Co., 2001)
'Crossing the Restorationist Rubicon: From House Church to New Church' in Fundamentalism, Church and Society, (eds.) Martyn Percy and I. Jones (SPCK, 2002)
'Scripture, Revelation and Platonism in C S Lewis’, Scottish Journal of Theology 55 (1), pp. 19-35 (2002)
(ed.) with Kristin Aune, On Revival: A Critical Examination (Paternoster, 2003)
(ed.) with Jeff Astley,J., L. Francis, L. & J. Sullivan J. The Idea of a Christian University (Paternoster, 2005)
(ed.) with Luke Bretherton, Remembering Our Future: Explorations in Deep Church (Paternoster, 2007)
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