{"product_id":"interrupting-the-churchs-flow-9780334059905","title":"Interrupting the Churchs Flow","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 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","brand":"SCM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52083909951831,"sku":"9780334059905","price":76.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780334059905.jpg?v=1762204294","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/interrupting-the-churchs-flow-9780334059905","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}