New Baptists, New Agenda considers the steady changes that have taken place among Baptists in the last decade - changes of mood, style, practice and structure - in a bid to define the Baptist identity at the beginning of the 21st century.

There are at present 80 million Baptists in the world; but what does it mean to be a Baptist, and how are present belief systems being transmitted to the next generation? Dr. Nigel G. Wright bases a futurist perspective of the Baptist Church on the present, and shows that productive, faithful and creative Christian living is possible and necessary if we are to respond to the shifting cultural paradigms of our time.