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This ground-breaking book challenges readers to rethink the divide between liberal and orthodox approaches which characterises Christianity today.
Provides an alternative to the liberal / orthodox divide in contemporary Christianity.
Defends Christianity's engagement with non-Christian traditions.
Includes important discussion of theological method.
Illustrated with case studies involving human rights, interfaith tolerance, economics, and ethics.
Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction 1
1 Engagement: What it is and Why it Matters 7
2 Augustine's Theological Methodology 30
3 Assimilation, Resistance, and Overhearing 48
4 Assimilation: Engagement with Human Rights 62
5 Resistance: The Heresy of State Sovereignty and the Religious Imperative for Intervention to Defend
Human Rights 71
6 Assimilation: The Importance of the Black and Feminist Perspectives 86
7 Overhearing: Clash of Discourses - Secular in the West Against the Secular in India 109
8 Overhearing: Thinking about Hinduism, Inclusivity, and Toleration 123
9 Assimilation: Christianity and the Consensus around Capitalism 138
10 Assimilation and Overhearing: Rethinking Globalization - Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's Risale-I Nur, Hardt, and Negri 147
11 Keith Ward: An Engaged Theologian 159
12 Engaging with the Pope: Engagement yet Not Engagement 168
13 The Shape of an Engaged Theology 191
Conclusion 208
Notes 210
References 235
Index 245