Voices from the Borderland: Re-Imagining Cross-Cultural Urban Theology in the Twenty-First Century

by Shannahan,Chris

• ISBN13: 9781845537043
• ISBN10: 1845537041
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2014-08-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Voices from the Borderland brings urban theology into a transformative dialogue with the dynamic urban world of the 21st century. As a result of many years of intimate engagement with British urban experience the author suggests that urban theology should be a theology for progressive change. This book breaks new ground by linking together five models of urban theological reflection which have, to date, existed in self-enclosed 'camps' (Urban Liberation Theology, Urban Black Theology, Reformist Urban Theology, Globalisation Urban Theology and Post-religious Urban Theology). The author argues that a new chapter must be opened in urban theology which moves beyond current models towards a more fluid, inclusive and dynamic metropolitan theology. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Chris Shannahan is Research Fellow in Urban Theology at the University of Birmingham. He has been an inner city Methodist Minister of sixteen years and his taught Urban and Practical Theology at the Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, the University of Birmingham and Newman College University in Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Experience and Analysis
Introduction	p. 3
A New Urban World	p. 15
Looking for Meaning in the Fourth World	p. 31
Interrogating Social Theory	p. 46
Resistance to the New Urban Elite	p. 56
Pop, Politics and Urban Theology	p. 71
Reflection
Gospel from the Borderland - Urban Liberation Theology	p. 99
Emancipation Still Comin' - Urban Black Theology	p. 124
God is Gradual - Reformist Urban Theology	p. 158
Going Global - Globalization Urban Theology	p. 188
Faith in a Liquid City - Post-Religious Urban Theology	p. 200
Response
Seeds of a Cross-Cultural Urban Theology of Liberation	p. 221
Conclusion	p. 245
Notes	p. 247
Bibliography	p. 290
Index	p. 309
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