Interrupting the Church's Flow : A radically receptive political theology in the urban margins (Scm Research)

Barrett, Al

SCM Press（2020/10発売）

SCM Press（2020/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 448 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780334059905
• DDC分類 261.8

Full Description

How can we develop and embody an ecclesiology, in contexts of urban marginality, that is radically receptive to the gifts and challenges of the agency of our non-Christian neighbours?

Drawing on resources from political theologies, and in particular conversation with Graham Ward and Romand Coles, this book challenges our lazy understanding of receptivity, digging deep to uncover a rich theological seam which has the potential to radically alter how theologians think about what we draw from urban places. It offers a game changing liberative theology rooted not in the global south but from a position of self-critical privilege.

Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Foreword, Professor Mike Higton and Dr Sanjee Perera xi

Introduction 1

Part One - Church on the Edges of the Public Square

1 Locating the drama 17

2 Public Theology 33

3 Liberation Theologies 43

4 Ecclesial political theologies 58

Part Two - Engaging Graham Ward: theologian of the postmodern city

5 The postmodern city 75

6 Church as 'alternative erotic community' 96

7 Interrupting the church's flow: Ward's 'schizoid' christology, and repressed 'others' 123

8 Tracing Ward's retreats 138

Part Three - Engaging Romand Coles as post-liberal 'theologian' of receptivity

9 A tension-dwelling 'visionary pragmatism' 161

10 A 'christeccentric', 'radically insufficient' church 201

Part Four - Developing a radically receptive political theology

11 Engaging critical white theology: dis-locating the (privileged) theologian 225

12 A radically receptive political ontology: returning to the flow(s) 243

13 Practising radically receptive political theology 254

14 Returning 264

Appendices 276

Bibliography 301

Index of Names and Subjects 325