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"This is required reading for all students, researchers, and
scholars in theology, as well as for ministers and lay leaders
engaged in ministry." - Black Theology Out of Place looks at the
ways in which theology, as a discipline and a practice, is out of
place at several locations: churches, nations, communities,
disciplines, institutions, and in public space. It contains several
reflections on what it means to be out of place in both theory and
in reality, from views and realities that are out of place from the
dominant theological stream. Together the contributions in this
volume aim to show that for theology to transform and be
transformative, it must come out of place and attend to peoples and
cultures (understood broadly) that have thus far been out of place.
The contributions in this book uphold the key convictions that
theologies are shaped by place and they are unavoidably contextual
so that no theology can encompass all places and contexts.
Therefore it is necessary for our spatially-defined theologies to
cross, intersect and interweave and thus seek to embrace places
that have not been acknowledged or expressed.
"This is required reading for all students, researchers, and
scholars in theology, as well as for ministers and lay leaders
engaged in ministry." - Black Theology Out of Place looks at the
ways in which theology, as a discipline and a practice, is out of
place at several locations: churches, nations, communities,
disciplines, institutions, and in public space. It contains several
reflections on what it means to be out of place in both theory and
in reality, from views and realities that are out of place from the
dominant theological stream. Together the contributions in this
volume aim to show that for theology to transform and be
transformative, it must come out of place and attend to peoples and
cultures (understood broadly) that have thus far been out of place.
The contributions in this book uphold the key convictions that
theologies are shaped by place and they are unavoidably contextual
so that no theology can encompass all places and contexts.
Therefore it is necessary for our spatially-defined theologies to
cross, intersect and interweave and thus seek to embrace places
that have not been acknowledged or expressed.
Clive Pearson takes us on an engaging whirlwind tour of the
fifty-three men and three women who have so far held the office of
Prime Minister. We discover how they got to the top of the greasy
pole and assess their performance once in power. Perhaps more
importantly, we find out what lasting influence they have had on
our lives today. The author also offers up entertaining
little-known facts about these key players. Eighteenth-century
prime ministers were generally a poor lot, often beset by health
problems such as gout and apoplectic fits; later, one
nineteenth-century premier spent his evenings prowling the streets
at night looking for prostitutes to 'reform'. This book casts a
light on this colourful cast of characters, and offers an
entertaining and accessible introduction to those who over the last
three centuries have held the highest office in the land.
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Home and Away (Hardcover)
Stephen Burns, Clive Pearson
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R1,098
R874
Discovery Miles 8 740
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Synopsis: Home and Away provides new vantage points in contextual
theology. An initial stream looks at the significance of postcodes
as a way of mapping local areas as situations for pastoral ministry
and theological reflection. A second, but not ancillary, stream of
essays considers the local within a range of glocal and global
dynamics. The essays do not unfold a single trajectory of thought
about context, and at various points they indirectly question and
challenge each other. The pieces meld into an international and
ecumenical conversation about contemporary Christian ministry. It
includes voices from North America, Europe, and Austral/Asia.
Although open ended, and constantly crisscrossing questions from
one context to another, the collection is emphatic in its common
conviction that attention to very local circumstance is crucial for
Christian ministry, just as are wider views of a locality's
position in broader flows. Endorsements: "Home and Away details why
global needs local and 'away' is anchored in home. Ten essays show
why the local postcode-zipcode is an essential starting point for
theological reflection that matters." --Dean Drayton, School of
Theology, Charles Sturt University Author Biography: Stephen Burns
is Research Fellow in Public and Contextual Theology at Charles
Sturt University, Australia. His publications include Liturgy
(2006), Worship in Context (2006), Exchanges of Grace (coeditor,
2008), The Edge of God (coeditor, 2008), Christian Worship in
Australia (coeditor, 2009), Presiding Like a Woman (coeditor,
2010), and Christian Worship: Postcolonial Perspectives (with
Michael N. Jagessar, 2011). Clive Pearson is Head of the School of
Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia. His publications
include Faith in a Hyphen (editor, 2004), Thirty Years of Korean
Ministry in Australia (coeditor, 2004), Scholarship and Fierce
Sincerity (with Allan Davidson and Peter Lineman, 2007) and Out of
Place (coeditor 2011).
Humanity operates like a force of nature capable of affecting the
destiny of the Earth System. This epochal shift profoundly alters
the relationship between humankind and the Earth, presenting the
conscious, thinking human animal with an unprecedented dilemma: As
human power has grown over the Earth, so has the power of nature to
extinguish human life. The emergence of the Anthropocene has
settled any question of the place of human beings in the world: we
stand inescapably at its center. The outstanding question-which
forms the impetus and focus for this book-remains: What kind of
human being stands at the center of the world? And what is the
nature of that world? Unlike the scientific fact of
human-centeredness, this is a moral question, a question that
brings theology within the scope of reflection on the critical
failures of human irresponsibility. Much of Christian theology has
so far flunked the test of engaging the reality of the
Anthropocene. The authors of these original essays begin with the
premise that it is time to push harder at the questions the
Anthropocene poses for people of faith.
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