عنوان

Babel or Pentecost? Faith, Difference and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century:

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LA112834

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Title Proper

Babel or Pentecost? Faith, Difference and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century:

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[Article]

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The Challenge for Public Theology

First Statement of Responsibility

Chris Shannahan

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

This article emerges from many years work in diverse inner city communities. It suggests that urban Britain will be understood properly, and public theology engaged fully with contemporary society, by seriously exploring the normative and contested nature of difference. The article critiques the view that diversity poses a threat to communal life and exposes current examples of essentialist identity politics. It argues that identities premised on raciology are unsustainable, and this poses a challenge to which people of faith should respond with urgency. Thus, the article asserts that critical patterns of multiculturalism provide the basis for inclusive patterns of faith and identity, and that existing public theologies still need to engage in sufficient depth with the fluidity of identity in twenty-first century Britain. At heart, the article offers the new hermeneutical principle of liberative difference as having the capacity to reinvigorate patterns of faith and resource an inclusive liberative struggle in urban societies. This article emerges from many years work in diverse inner city communities. It suggests that urban Britain will be understood properly, and public theology engaged fully with contemporary society, by seriously exploring the normative and contested nature of difference. The article critiques the view that diversity poses a threat to communal life and exposes current examples of essentialist identity politics. It argues that identities premised on raciology are unsustainable, and this poses a challenge to which people of faith should respond with urgency. Thus, the article asserts that critical patterns of multiculturalism provide the basis for inclusive patterns of faith and identity, and that existing public theologies still need to engage in sufficient depth with the fluidity of identity in twenty-first century Britain. At heart, the article offers the new hermeneutical principle of liberative difference as having the capacity to reinvigorate patterns of faith and resource an inclusive liberative struggle in urban societies.

Date of Publication

2007

Physical description

364-381

Title

International Journal of Public Theology

Volume Number

1/3

International Standard Serial Number

1569-7320

Subject Term

DIVERSITY

Subject Term

HERMENEUTICS

Subject Term

LIBERATION

Subject Term

RACISM

Subject Term

URBAN

Chris Shannahan

Call Number

10.1163/156973207X231671

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[Article]

275578

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