Christopher J Voke

Chris Voke is a Baptist minister who brings the experience of twenty years of ministry among students and in two Baptist churches to Spurgeon’s. He served as Deputy Principal of the College and taught in the area of Practical Theology until his retirement in 2011. His doctoral research was on the subject of corporate worship and the doctrine of creation and he continues to think and write about contemporary Christian worship as well as framing contemporary liturgy for corporate and personal use. He has served in Sweden as a visiting lecturer in Malmo (SALT) and at the Örebromissionskola.

Chris taught music and religious education before working as a travelling secretary for the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship. He trained at Spurgeon's for the Baptist Ministry as an early kind of church-based student and then served churches in Sussex and in Kent. He continues to live in the local area and is now a Research Fellow of the College.

He is married to Margaret and they have three grown up children and three grandchildren. His primary leisure interest is music; writing, playing and listening and he serves as self-appointed guardian of the College woods.

Recent Publications:

• Leading Public Worship, Spurgeon's Online (Module 8161) (2010)
• Creation at Worship - ecology, creation and Christian worship (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2009)
• 'Turning the frontier tide; a theological response to contemporary worship' in The South African Baptist Journal of Theology (Vol. 18, Sept 2009), 217-224
• Leadership & Teamwork, Spurgeon's College, Open Learning Module (Module 8262) (2008)
• 'Pastoral ministry - classical or communal?' and 'What theology for pastoral practice?'; in Pilli, Toivo (ed) and Riistan, Ain (ed), Church-based theology for ministerial practice; (Tartu: Tartu Theological Seminary, 2008) 9-35
• Pastoral Theory and Practice, Spurgeon's College Open Learning module (Module 8163) (2006)
• Contributor to the Baptist Union worship resource Gathering for Worship, patterns and prayers for the community of disciples, edited by Chris Ellis & Myra Blyth (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2005)
• Teologi för Pastoral Praxis (Örebro: Örebro Missionskolas Skriftserien 2001)
• 'Putting the Gospel back into Preaching', Evangel, 1999, 17:2

Email: c.voke@spurgeons.ac.uk