Vol. 6 No. 1 (2025): Special Issue: Christian Empowerment, Secularity and Church Development in Germany

Welcome to this Special Issue of our journal focusing on the church in Germany. It adds to our publishing around a specific country focus in a special issue which we began when looking at South Korea in 2023. The papers presented here have been developed from lectures given at the annual gathering of the International Consultation on Ecclesial Futures (ICEF) in Halle/Saale in Germany in June 2024. The golden thread running through this special issue is the current circumstances and challenges of the Evangelical Church in Germany. The issue provides a helpful case study on how the German church is responding to secularisation and its concomitant decline in church membership which we hope readers will find informative and instructive with pointers to fruitful ecclesial futures. We also include seven wide-ranging book reviews from five readers with new departures into non-English language books (though reviewed in English) and published research dissertations.