About me

My name is Andrew Perriman. My wife, Belinda, and I have lived in various parts of the world over the last 20 years: the Far East, Africa, Holland, the Middle East, the Nethelands, and London. We have recently moved again to Dubai and live a stone’s throw from the Burg Khalifa, the world’s tallest building.

I’ve combined theological studies and writing with pastoral and missional work in a wide range of contexts. Belinda works in the oil industry.

My overriding theological interest at the moment is in how we retell the biblical story as we negotiate the difficult transition from the centre to the margins of our culture following the collapse of Western Christendom.

For an introduction to this site see The narrative premise of a post-Christendom theology.

In addition to some articles in academic journals, I have written Speaking of Women: Interpreting Paul (IVP, 1998); The Coming of the Son of Man: New Testament Eschatology for an Emerging Church (Paternoster, 2005); Otherways: In Search of an Emerging Theology (OST, 2007); Re: Mission: Biblical Mission for a Post-Biblical Church (Paternoster, 2007); The Future of the People of God: Reading Romans Before and After Western Christendom (Wipf and Stock, 2010); and I edited a report for the Evangelical Alliance in the UK entitled Faith, Health and Prosperity (Paternoster, 2003), also published in the US.

I am also part of Christian Associates, a wonderful organization that seeks to develop open, creative communities of faith for the emerging culture.