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Following various church abuse scandals, there is now a growing realization that bad theology and bad outcomes are deeply connected. Ending Abusive Theologies attributes the widespread decline of Christian belief in the West in part to harmful, indeed abusive, doctrines. At the same time, there has been a widespread failure of theology to equip the Church to engage with a world that has lost interest in, and patience with, the Church, while retaining its interest in all things 'spiritual'.
Adrian Thatcher argues that we should start thinking of abusive theology as a category of theology; Ending Abusive Theologies widens and deepens this notion and its catalogue of harms, linking it firmly to the abuse crises in the churches, yet also suggesting the shape of a post-abusive alternative. The book charts a course back to living faith via an unflinching exposure of abusive teachings, abusive Bible readings, and abusive depictions of God that have no place in a gospel-centred theology of justice and love. In this way, we are taken on a rough voyage through seas of controversy, ending calmly in the welcome harbour of an all-loving and non-abusive God.
Contents
Part 1 Abusive Theologies
Chapter 1 Abusive Theology: The Wisdom of Unbelief
Chapter 2 Abusive Theology: A Case Study
Chapter 3 Abusive Theologies: the Foundation and the Task
Chapter 4 'Christian Doctrine: 'Gift' or 'Poison'?
Chapter 5 A divine binary? Abusive Theologies of Sex and Gender
Part 2 An Abusive God?
Chapter 6 The God of the Hebrew Bible? The Problem and the Evidence
Chapter 7 The Abusive God? Consequences for Belief
Chapter 8 Endless Excuses?
Chapter 9 The Violent God: An Embodied Giant?
Chapter 10 Violence in the New Testament?
Chapter 11 Divine Child Abuse?
Part 3 Revelling in the Mystery - Towards a Post-Abusive Theology
Chapter 12 Transformations
Chapter 13 The Mystery of Being: Discerning the Divine Body
Chapter 14 The Mystery of Life
Chapter 15 The Mystery of Spirit
Chapter 16 The Mystery of God: God is Love



