Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice [Paperback]

A new appraisal of the relationship between theology and culture.What is the relationship between Christian theology as a set of various practices--liturgies, Bible readings, academic research, doctrinal commissions--and what goes on in culture more generally? Graham Ward examines how cultural transformation takes place and how the practices of theology might inform that transformation in particular ways. This is an essay in theological method that offers a new approach to the nature of interpretation as a cultural activity.What is the relationship between Christian theology as a set of various practices--liturgies, Bible readings, academic research, doctrinal commissions--and what goes on in culture more generally? Graham Ward examines how cultural transformation takes place and how the practices of theology might inform that transformation in particular ways. This is an essay in theological method that offers a new approach to the nature of interpretation as a cultural activity.What is the relationship between Christian theology as a set of practices (liturgies, Bible readings, academic research, doctrinal commissions) and culture more generally? Graham Ward examines how cultural transformation happens and how the practices of theology can influence that transformation specifically. This essay in theological method offers a new approach to the nature of cultural activity interpretation.Introduction; Governing Question I: From what place does theology speak?; Governing Question II: How do cultures change?; Governing Question III: What is the relationship between religious practices and cultural transformation?'The book's great strength lies in its rehabilitation of religious discourse as a legitimate challenge to 'the secular logics of Western global capitalism'. So its focus is 'the negotiation between Christian living and thinking and the contemporary world'.' Church Times'& erudite and challenging & highly commended. It is a well-researched, discerning and inslÎ