'Christopher Baker offers a refreshing and authoritative look at the opportunities and challenges facing the urban church. This book is a great blend of cultural analysis, local voices and theological reflection. It marks a new wave of thinking about what it means to live as people of faith amidst the complexities of the contemporary city'.

- Elaine Graham, University of Manchester

‘In this fascinating and prescient study, Christopher Baker argues for a new kind of engagement and connectedness for theology and the churches. By focussing attention on space, urbanisation and marginalisation, new possibilities for practical theology are opened up that invite a fundamental reconsideration of the churches and their location within post-modern society. This book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the Christianity and culture debate in more depth, and tackle it with imagination, flair and thought'.

- Martyn Percy, Ripon College Cuddesdon.

'The Hybrid Church in the City is a relatively slim book. It packs a lot into its covers and names an agenda that needs to be named for those who want a public theology to engage with the complexities of rapidly changing cities.'

- Clive Pearson, Charles Sturt University, Sydney, Australia