Confounding the Mighty
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Confounding the Mighty

Stories of Church, Social Class and Solidarity

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Confounding the Mighty

Stories of Church, Social Class and Solidarity

About this book

It is long past time for the church to talk seriously about social class. Bringing together the stories of eight contemporary Christian ministers and theologians from working-class backgrounds, and putting their own life experiences into conversation with theological reflection, Confounding the Mighty explores what role class plays in the life of Churches, education establishments and social justice movements in 21st Century Britain and beyond. Written from a diverse variety of social locations, chapters explore how class relates to faith, Church, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, education, leadership, work and wider social justice issues. While lamenting injustice and personal experiences of oppression, this book suggests radical changes in how Christians, churches and theologians relate to class issues, pointing towards renewed structures and practices to bring class justice in churches and wider society. Recognising that class is a thorny issue, the book seeks to bring a progressive theological perspective on class which pays close attention to related issues and promotes liberation for all.

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Information

Publisher
SCM Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780334063575
eBook ISBN
9780334063599
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Copyright information
  2. Contents
  3. Contributor Biographies
  4. Foreword
  5. Prelude
  6. Section 1: ‘The Almighty has done great things for me’: Intersectional Experiences of Class and the Church
  7. 1. Feckless Faith: Why the Relationship between Class and Christian Faith is a Justice Issue
  8. 2. Wandering in the Wilderness: Education, Class and Dislocation
  9. 3. Caste, Class and Colour: The Church’s Triangle of Tragedy
  10. Section 2: ‘Lifting up the lowly’: Class and Leadership in Mission and Ministry
  11. 4. Consider Your Own Call: Working-Class Vocations in the Church of England
  12. 5. Resisting Coloniality: Class, Pentecostalism and Contemporary Leadership in the Church in England
  13. Section 3: ‘Casting down the mighty from their thrones’: Class, Solidarity and the Struggle for the Common Good
  14. 6. ‘Bullshit Jobs’: The Church and the Precariat
  15. 7. Recovering the Radical: Lessons of Class Solidarity through a Case Study from the Iona Community
  16. 8. Class in the Classroom: Social Class and Theological Education
  17. 9. Conclusion: The Spirit and Struggling for Solidarity
  18. Afterword