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Theology, Ideology and Liberation

Peter Scott author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:14th Aug '08

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Peter Scott seeks to show that, often despite itself, Christianity speaks of a God of freedom.

Pressing liberation, feminist and ecological theologies into service, this book seeks to answer the question: how is theology liberating? Reflecting as it does on the nature of 'theology after Gorbachev', it outlines a theology which is practical and contextual, and enquires how Christianity might help to actually change society.How is theology liberating? In the context of a post-Gorbachev world, where many demand freedom which the Western powers seem ill-equipped to deliver, is it even possible to envisage a liberative theology? Taking as his starting point the Marxist complaint that Christianity is ideological, Peter Scott argues that it is not enough for Christian theology to talk about liberation: it must be liberative. Stressing with feminist and liberation theologies the embodied, contextual nature of theology, the constructive proposal made here locates God's liberating abundance toward society in an interpretation of resurrection as social. Only in this way, in the author's view, can a trinitarian Christian account of liberation be adequately grounded. The book will be of interest to all those who wish to know if theology may speak truthfully about the transformation of society: it offers the shape of a liberative theology pointing towards social freedom.

"...complex, original, scholarly, and carefully argued..." Theology Today
"[Scott] is a gifted thinker with a very clear grasp of Marxism and the challenges it presents..." Theological Studies

ISBN: 9780521072298

Dimensions: 225mm x 152mm x 21mm

Weight: 600g

288 pages