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Simplified extracts from these publications, and other as yet unpublsihed work, are also available.

Journal Publications

  • Mathematical Modeling of Church Growth, Journal of Mathematical Sociology 1999. 23(4), pp.255-292.
  • A Dynamical Model of Church Growth and its Application to Contemporary Revivals, Review of Religious Research, 43(3), pp.218-241, March 2002. A Revised version of the paper at the Houston 2000 conference below.
  • A General Model of Church Growth and Decline , Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 29(3), pp.177-207, 2005

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Other Publications

  • Church Growth - A Disease!!. Quadrant September 2000, published by Christian Research.
  • Modelling Church Growth - Mathematically, Church Growth Digest, 23(1) pp.3-5, 2001. British Church Growth Association.
  • Passing on the Faith. Quadrant March 2002, published by Christian Research.
  • Can the Church be Tipped into Growth? Quadrant May 2006, published by Christian Research.
  • Church Growth and Spiritual Life. (with L Howells.) Future First. April 2011, published by Brierley Consultancy.

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Contact Details

Copies of publications not online (due to copyright reasons) are available by post.

Postal and phone contact is via the Division of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Glamorgan, details at personal page.

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Other papers in social dynamics which are not on church growth are listed at the Social Dynamics website.


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