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Encounter Bursary application deadline dates 2018/19

To find out how to apply for an encounter scheme bursary, which enables recipients to spend a sustained period of time in a Christian community in a culture other than their own, overseas, or in the UK, click here.

The new dates for deadlines have just been released too!

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Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

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CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

“Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds” will bring together scholars to reconsider the category of a ‘Protestant Woman’. The event will explore how Protestant women have shaped religious worlds across the Global North to the Global South and Eastern Europe. Focusing on questions of gender, scripture, and religious identities, the event will open with a panel discussion followed by a networking session. It offers an opportunity to connect across disciplines and rethink the study of Protestant women across different time periods and cultural contexts.

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We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

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Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

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Welcome

Listen to Revd Colin Chapman’s CCCW seminar on the Middle East

Revd Colin Chapman gave a seminar at the Divinity Faculty on Tuesday 9 October, on ‘Can Religion and Politics be Separated in the Middle East?’

This was part of the CCCW & Divinity Faculty series on World Christianity.

Click here to listen to the talk.

Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

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Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

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Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

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CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

“Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds” will bring together scholars to reconsider the category of a ‘Protestant Woman’. The event will explore how Protestant women have shaped religious worlds across the Global North to the Global South and Eastern Europe. Focusing on questions of gender, scripture, and religious identities, the event will open with a panel discussion followed by a networking session. It offers an opportunity to connect across disciplines and rethink the study of Protestant women across different time periods and cultural contexts.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

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Welcome

New day for CCCW seminars

The CCCW, in collaboration with the Divinity Faculty, University of Cambridge have a brand new series of seminars for the forthcoming academic year.  Click here to read more.

The seminars will be held on TUESDAYS.

Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

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Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

Learn More
Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

“Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds” will bring together scholars to reconsider the category of a ‘Protestant Woman’. The event will explore how Protestant women have shaped religious worlds across the Global North to the Global South and Eastern Europe. Focusing on questions of gender, scripture, and religious identities, the event will open with a panel discussion followed by a networking session. It offers an opportunity to connect across disciplines and rethink the study of Protestant women across different time periods and cultural contexts.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

Learn More
Research & Study
Welcome

Black and white photo challenge on Twitter

Have you noticed the black and white photo challenge for libraries that has been taking Twitter by storm? It appears to have started in America, as far as my research goes, and has come over to England and spread rapidly through the Cambridge University libraries.

The Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide library was challenged by the Divinity Faculty library, which was challenged by the Haddon library, which was challenged by Trinity library, which was challenged by Christ’s library, which was challenged by both Queens’ library and the ARU library, and so it goes on…

The idea is to post a black and white photo of library life each working day for seven days, challenging a new library each day. No people. No explanations. Just library life as we know it. You can see our response to the challenge on Twitter. Here are the gallery of photos now turned into colour:

Ruth MacLean
Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

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Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

Learn More
Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

“Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds” will bring together scholars to reconsider the category of a ‘Protestant Woman’. The event will explore how Protestant women have shaped religious worlds across the Global North to the Global South and Eastern Europe. Focusing on questions of gender, scripture, and religious identities, the event will open with a panel discussion followed by a networking session. It offers an opportunity to connect across disciplines and rethink the study of Protestant women across different time periods and cultural contexts.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

Learn More
Research & Study
Welcome

Recent visitor to the CCCW

Fr. Matthew Chandrankunnel, Director of the Ecumenical Christian Centre in Bangalore, India visited the CCCW and spent time in discussion with our director, Dr Muthuraj Swamy.

Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

Learn More
Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

Learn More
Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

“Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds” will bring together scholars to reconsider the category of a ‘Protestant Woman’. The event will explore how Protestant women have shaped religious worlds across the Global North to the Global South and Eastern Europe. Focusing on questions of gender, scripture, and religious identities, the event will open with a panel discussion followed by a networking session. It offers an opportunity to connect across disciplines and rethink the study of Protestant women across different time periods and cultural contexts.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

Learn More
Research & Study
Welcome

Reduced opening hours at CCCW during August

Please be aware, the CCCW opening hours during the summer will be from 9am to 1pm only.

This will start from the week beginning 30 July until 3 September.

 

Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

Learn More
Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

Learn More
Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

“Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds” will bring together scholars to reconsider the category of a ‘Protestant Woman’. The event will explore how Protestant women have shaped religious worlds across the Global North to the Global South and Eastern Europe. Focusing on questions of gender, scripture, and religious identities, the event will open with a panel discussion followed by a networking session. It offers an opportunity to connect across disciplines and rethink the study of Protestant women across different time periods and cultural contexts.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

Learn More
Research & Study
Welcome

Access to research journals online

A new government-funded initiative is allowing free access to a significant number of scholarly journals through participating public libraries, including several journals relating to Christianity and mission. You can take a look at it here: Access to Research

Students can search the database and view abstracts from any computer, but must visit a public library to get full-text access.

The list of journal titles included is here.

The list of participating public libraries is here.

There are plenty of Cambridgeshire public libraries on the list, so you may want to pop along to your local public library to do some of your research!

Ruth MacLean
Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

Learn More
Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

Learn More
Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

“Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds” will bring together scholars to reconsider the category of a ‘Protestant Woman’. The event will explore how Protestant women have shaped religious worlds across the Global North to the Global South and Eastern Europe. Focusing on questions of gender, scripture, and religious identities, the event will open with a panel discussion followed by a networking session. It offers an opportunity to connect across disciplines and rethink the study of Protestant women across different time periods and cultural contexts.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

Learn More
Research & Study
Welcome

Paul’s missionary methods – Book of the week

What does Paul’s missions strategy mean for today? A century ago Roland Allen published Missionary Methods: Saint Paul’s or Ours?, a missiological classic which tackled many important issues, including what biblically rooted missions looks like in light of the apostle Paul’s evangelistic efforts. Although Allen’s work is still valuable, new understandings have been gained regarding Paul’s milieu and missionary activity, and how his practices ought to inform missions in our ever-changing world.        — back cover

In this book, published in 2013 on the centennial anniversary of Allen’s work, experts in New Testament studies and missiology seek to revisit first century missionary methods and apply these in our contemporary world.

Paul’s missionary work is studied in two parts: first, Paul’s missionary efforts in the first century context, looking at his environment, mission strategy and teaching; second, the implications of his example for today, asking whether his model is still relevant and what this would look like in the modern context.

The contributors offer “fresh, key insights from their fields, analyzing Paul’s missionary methods in his time and pointing the way forward in ours.”

Do come and take a look at this insightful book. It is classified 227 PLU. See for yourself the original works by Roland Allen too on mission. They are found at 266 ALL.

Contributors include:

  • Michael F. Bird

  • Eckhard J. Schnabel

  • Benjamin L. Merkle

  • Christoph W. Stenschke

  • Don N. Howell Jr.

  • Craig Keener

  • David J. Hesselgrave

  • Michael Pocock

  • Ed Stetzer

  • M. David Sills

  • Chuck Lawless

  • J. D. Payne

Ruth MacLean
Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

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Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

Learn More
Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

“Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds” will bring together scholars to reconsider the category of a ‘Protestant Woman’. The event will explore how Protestant women have shaped religious worlds across the Global North to the Global South and Eastern Europe. Focusing on questions of gender, scripture, and religious identities, the event will open with a panel discussion followed by a networking session. It offers an opportunity to connect across disciplines and rethink the study of Protestant women across different time periods and cultural contexts.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

Learn More
Research & Study
Welcome

Asian theology – book of the week

Our book of the week is:

asian theology on the way: christianity, culture and context (spck international study guide 50) / peniel j. r. rajkumar, editor

 

This volume is a compilation of writings by nearly twenty prominent Asian theologians who have made their work accessible to new scholars in the field of world Christianity. It is an ideal introduction to Asian theologies and also major questions that these theologies raise.

These questions relate to how the Church formulates its theology, and these Asian theologians argue that their indigenous context requires a new Christian theology. Some see their task as undoing western colonial interpretations of Scripture, and creating theologies in the light of issues which dominate their own unique culture and its needs.

The book is volume 50 of the SPCK International Study Guide Series which has been praised by René Padilla, Emeritus President of the Kairos Foundation and Director of Kairos Books. He writes of this ecumenical series:

“To be relevant to life, theology has to be contextual. The International Study Guides are a tremendous help to people. They broaden their concept of the mission of the Church and their Christian responsibility.”

Our library has six volumes in this series. The key one to check out is African theology on the way: current conversations/ Diane B. Stinton, editor 230.06 STI

Like Asian theology on the way, African theology on the way is shaped for introductory level students and is a compilation of writings of prominent African theologians, providing an introduction to the diversity and wealth of African theologies and the major questions that these raise.

“Topics range from biblical interpretation to spirituality and ethics, from Pentecostalism and African Instituted Churches to evil and suffering, from feminist theory to Christian identity and ethnicity.” — back cover

Ruth MacLean, Librarian
Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

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Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

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Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

“Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds” will bring together scholars to reconsider the category of a ‘Protestant Woman’. The event will explore how Protestant women have shaped religious worlds across the Global North to the Global South and Eastern Europe. Focusing on questions of gender, scripture, and religious identities, the event will open with a panel discussion followed by a networking session. It offers an opportunity to connect across disciplines and rethink the study of Protestant women across different time periods and cultural contexts.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

Learn More
Research & Study