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Hybrid Church in the City - Third Space Thinking (Paperback)
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The Hybrid Church in the City focuses on the importance of urban
space as a way of reinterpreting the mission and identity of the
church for the twenty-first century. Christopher Baker uses the
idea of the Third Space (a concept widely used in post-colonial and
cultural studies) to offer a way of understanding the new form of
the city - namely the diversity of the hybrid, post-colonial and
postmodern urban space. In The Hybrid Church in the City,
Christopher Baker deploys thinkers like Homi Bhabha and Leonie
Sandercock to argue that the church should closely follow the grain
of hybrid cities, including new forms of civil society and systems
of governance, in order to occupy the fluid spaces created by the
interaction of both networks and institutions, of the local and the
global, and religion and secularity. He offers several case studies
to back up his case for the development of what he calls local
practical theologies which focus on developing partnerships with
both faith and non-faith-based partners. Underpinning this
practical theology is a radical Christian Realism tradition in the
tradition of such thinkers as Bonhoeffer, Niebuhr, Temple, Preston
and Atherton. In other words, the author believes, Third Space
ecclesiology and theology are already at work. What is needed now
is a new spatial language of the Third Space in order to help
public theology engage with the complexity of rapidly-changing
cities and societies. Christopher Baker writes and researches
extensively on faith-based engagement in civil society and social
policy. He also teaches and facilitates training events on these
topics. 'Christopher Baker offers a refreshing and authoritative
look at the opportunities and challenges facing the urban church.
This book is a great blend of cultural analysis, local voices and
theological reflection. It marks a new wave of thinking about what
it means to live as people of faith amidst the complexities of the
contemporary city'. Elaine Graham, University of Manchester In this
fascinating and prescient study, Christopher Baker argues for a new
kind of engagement and connectedness for theology and the churches.
By focussing attention on space, urbanisation and marginalisation,
new possibilities for practical theology are opened up that invite
a fundamental reconsideration of the churches and their location
within post-modern society. This book is essential reading for all
those who want to understand the Christianity and culture debate in
more depth, and tackle it with imagination, flair and thought'.
--Martyn Percy, Ripon College Cuddesdon Product Description There
has been a growing interest in the rapidly evolving nature of
cities in the past 10-15 years, but especially in the last 5 years,
and the profound impact this is having upon our understanding of
community, belonging and church. This book shows that theology in
an urban context has developed way beyond the inner-city
nostaligia. It is a challenging, critical and constructive study of
the role of the church in cities.
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