Voices from the Borderland: Re-Imagining Cross-Cultural Urban Theology in the Twenty-First Century

Voices from the Borderland brings urban theology into a transformative dialogue with the dynamic urban world of the 21st century. As a result of many years of intimate engagement with British urban experience the author suggests that urban theology should be a theology for progressive change. This book breaks new ground by linking together five models of urban theological reflection which have, to date, existed in self-enclosed 'camps' (Urban Liberation Theology, Urban Black Theology, Reformist Urban Theology, Globalisation Urban Theology and Post-religious Urban Theology). The author argues that a new chapter must be opened in urban theology which moves beyond current models towards a more fluid, inclusive and dynamic metropolitan theology. Book jacket.

Chris Shannahan is Research Fellow in Urban Theology at the University of Birmingham. He has been an inner city Methodist Minister of sixteen years and his taught Urban and Practical Theology at the Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, the University of Birmingham and Newman College University in Birmingham.