Interrupting the church's flow: hearing other' voices on an outer urban estate
How might the Church of England - so focused currently on the language of mission', action' and numerical growth', and yet still largely entangled in race, class and ecclesiastical privilege - be carefully attentive to those voices that have been pushed to the edges of wider public...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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Practical theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-92 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics CH Christianity and Society FD Contextual theology KBF British Isles KDE Anglican Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Race
B Class B Church of England B Political Theology B Mission (international law |
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| Summary: | How might the Church of England - so focused currently on the language of mission', action' and numerical growth', and yet still largely entangled in race, class and ecclesiastical privilege - be carefully attentive to those voices that have been pushed to the edges of wider public discourse? What are the obstacles to such attentiveness? What theological resources are currently available? And how might we both imagine and practice an openness to interruption, so that our missional flow' - of words, of actions, of love, even - might not be all one-way? Beginning with one multiethnic outer estate context, this article surveys wider societal discourses of division along ethnic and class lines, and three broad responses within contemporary political theology to such divisions. Responding to two recent examples of an ecclesiocentric one-way flow, from a position of multiple privilege, the beginnings of an alternative approach, radically receptive to the church's others', is outlined. |
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| ISSN: | 1756-0748 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2017.1416221 |