Interrupting the Church's Flow
A radically receptive political theology in the urban margins
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 2020
344 pages
978-0-334-05992-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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Interrupting the Church's Flow
A radically receptive political theology in the urban margins
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Revd Dr Al Barrett is rector of Hodge Hill Church in the Diocese of Birmingham. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Queen's Foundation
Content
- Intro
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part 1: Church on the Edges of the Public Square
- 1. Locating the drama
- 2. Public Theology
- 3. Liberation Theologies
- 4. Ecclesial political theologies
- Part 2: Engaging Graham Ward: theologian of the postmodern city
- 5. The postmodern city
- 6. Church as 'alternative erotic community'
- 7. Interrupting the church's flow: Ward's 'schizoid' christology, and repressed 'others'
- 8. Tracing Ward's retreats
- Part 3: Engaging Romand Coles as post-liberal 'theologian' of receptivity
- 9. A tension-dwelling 'visionary pragmatism'
- 10. A 'christeccentric', 'radically insufficient' church
- Part 4: Developing a radically receptive political theology
- 11. Engaging critical white theology: dis-locating the (privileged) theologian
- 12. A radically receptive political ontology: returning to the flow(s)
- 13. Practising radically receptive political theology
- 14. Returning
- Epigraph
- Appendix 1: Interview with Graham Ward (2015)
- Appendix 2: Interview with Phil Howkins (2017)
- Bibliography
