Taking Hold of the Real BOOKS > Doctrine and Theology > Systematic They all share a concern

They all share a concern with the way the sources and norms of the Christian tradition can enter into a creative and critical conversation with contemporary experience in order to generate the ‘practical wisdom’ by which the life of the Church can be directed

theologian Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen provides a wide-ranging survey of the rich field of ecclesiology in the midst of rapid developments and new horizons

and learn how you can impact your world

reflecting theologically on the contested concepts at the heart of the current debate about the place of faith in British public life: democracy

or interaction with humanity

Taking Hold of the Real BOOKS > Doctrine and Theology > Systematic They all share a concernDietrich Bonhoeffer writes in one of his last prison letters that he had come to know and understand more and more the profound this worldliness of Christianity. In Taking Hold of the Real, Barry Harvey engages in constructive conversation with Bonhoeffer, contending that the shallow and banal this worldliness of modern society is ordered to a significant degree around the social structures of religion, culture, and race. These mechanisms displace