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Book SynopsisDrawing on resources from political theologies, and in particular conversation with Graham Ward and Romand Coles, 'Interrupting the Church's Flow' 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.
Trade ReviewThis book offers us a renewing and challenging vision of how to be human in unsettling times. It renews political theology as a discipline, building on (rather than rejecting) the movements of recent years; and it renews the Church whose pathway to the life of resurrection is argued to be via a radically receptive way of living. -- Anna Rowlands, St Hilda Associate Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
