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Interrupting the Church's Flow: A radically receptive political theology in the urban margins
Interrupting the Church's Flow: A radically receptive political theology in the urban margins
Interrupting the Church's Flow: A radically receptive political theology in the urban margins
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Interrupting the Church's Flow: A radically receptive political theology in the urban margins

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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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PublisherSCM Press
Release dateOct 30, 2020
ISBN9780334059929
Interrupting the Church's Flow: A radically receptive political theology in the urban margins
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Al Barrett

The Revd Dr Al Barrett has been Rector of Hodge Hill Church, Birmingham, since 2010, where he has been engaged in a long-term journey of ‘growing loving community’ alongside his neighbours. He is the editor of Finding The Treasure: Good News from the Estates and co-author of Being Interrupted: Re-imagining the Church's Mission from the Outside, In, and is engaged in ongoing practical theological research, writing and teaching, particularly through the lenses of race, class, gender and ecology.

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