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Theology
Analysing Christian contributions to academic and public debates since Faith in the City, this ar... more Analysing Christian contributions to academic and public debates since Faith in the City, this article suggests that there is a crisis in British ‘political theology’. It arises because it is narrowly conceived even by its strongest advocates. Contrary to the expansive claims made by political theologians, it suggests, rather, that they have deliberately narrowed the field to make it fit with their constrained encounter with the political and their longing for a welfare consensus that has passed. This in turn has left them entirely unengaged with the complex realm of governance between the inputs of words and the outcomes of policy choices – in short, they have absented ‘political theology’ from public leadership, public finance, political anthropology, changing governance and the everyday life of states and churches in societies. Exploring four brief counterpoints or sites of enquiry across contrasting settings, the article makes the case for a fresh ‘empirical political theology’ ...
Religion and State in Secular Europe Today, 2019
Christianity and COVID-19, 2021
Poverty in the Early Church and Today, 2019
Public Money & Management, 2009
... For policy-makers, discounting the Church link might also inadvertently diminish options for ... more ... For policy-makers, discounting the Church link might also inadvertently diminish options for successful engagement ... which was then excluded from the country's final national anti-povertyaction plan had ... has been more vital to its work than the articulation of any motivating ideas. ...
International Journal of Public Theology, 2009
This article is based on new research focused on attempts by the pan-European Roman Catholic Cari... more This article is based on new research focused on attempts by the pan-European Roman Catholic Caritas Europa social welfare federation to advocate for poverty reduction in twenty-four European Union Member States in the period 2006–2008. Addressing itself to the fresh challenges of Christian advocacy at the international and globalizing levels, it seeks to tease out questions for a theology of governance and appropriate ecclesiology in an environment where the idea of the 'local' is relocated to the…
International Journal of Public Theology, 2011
The Review of Faith & International Affairs
Theology
Analysing Christian contributions to academic and public debates since Faith in the City, this ar... more Analysing Christian contributions to academic and public debates since Faith in the City, this article suggests that there is a crisis in British ‘political theology’. It arises because it is narrowly conceived even by its strongest advocates. Contrary to the expansive claims made by political theologians, it suggests, rather, that they have deliberately narrowed the field to make it fit with their constrained encounter with the political and their longing for a welfare consensus that has passed. This in turn has left them entirely unengaged with the complex realm of governance between the inputs of words and the outcomes of policy choices – in short, they have absented ‘political theology’ from public leadership, public finance, political anthropology, changing governance and the everyday life of states and churches in societies. Exploring four brief counterpoints or sites of enquiry across contrasting settings, the article makes the case for a fresh ‘empirical political theology’ ...
Religion and State in Secular Europe Today, 2019
Christianity and COVID-19, 2021
Poverty in the Early Church and Today, 2019
Public Money & Management, 2009
... For policy-makers, discounting the Church link might also inadvertently diminish options for ... more ... For policy-makers, discounting the Church link might also inadvertently diminish options for successful engagement ... which was then excluded from the country's final national anti-povertyaction plan had ... has been more vital to its work than the articulation of any motivating ideas. ...
International Journal of Public Theology, 2009
This article is based on new research focused on attempts by the pan-European Roman Catholic Cari... more This article is based on new research focused on attempts by the pan-European Roman Catholic Caritas Europa social welfare federation to advocate for poverty reduction in twenty-four European Union Member States in the period 2006–2008. Addressing itself to the fresh challenges of Christian advocacy at the international and globalizing levels, it seeks to tease out questions for a theology of governance and appropriate ecclesiology in an environment where the idea of the 'local' is relocated to the…
International Journal of Public Theology, 2011
The Review of Faith & International Affairs