This ground-breaking book challenges readers to rethink the divide between liberal and orthodox approaches which characterises Christianity today. O Provides an alternative to the liberal / orthodox divide in contemporary Christianity. O Defends Christianity's engagement with non-Christian traditions. O Includes important discussion of theological method. O Illustrated with case studies involving human rights, interfaith tolerance, economics, and ethics.
Acknowledgments.Introduction.1. Engagement: What it is and why it matters.2. Augustine's Theological Methodology. 3. Assimilation, Resistance and Overhearing.4. Assimilation: Engagement with Human Rights.5. Resistance: The heresy of State Sovereignty and the Religious imperative for intervention to defend Human rights.6. Assimilation: The Importance of Black and Feminist Perspectives.7. Overhearing: Clash of Discourses: Secular in the West against the Secular in India.8. Overhearing: Thinking about Hinduism, Inclusivity and Toleration.9. Assimilation: Christianity and the Consensus Around Capitalism.10. Assimilation and overhearing: 'Rethinking Globalization: Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's Risale-I Nur in conversation with Empire: By Hardt and Negri.11. Keith Ward: An Engaged Theologian.12. Engaging with the Pope: Engagement yet not Engagement.13. The Shape of an Engaged Theology. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index.
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