Development Beyond the Secular
Theological Approaches to Inequality
Development Beyond the Secular
Theological Approaches to Inequality
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Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334055655
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 30/09/2017
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
The intersection of religion and development has for some decades been considered contentious, with scholars of both disciplines inhibited by the constraints of either the religious or the secular paradigm they primarily inhabit.
Development Beyond the Secular aims to provide a new resource for those interested in the study of religions and development (primarily postgraduate and academic), and for those development practitioners wishing to contextualize their discipline within a religious frame.
Using the work of Christian Aid as its primary lens, this book examines and critiques the theological underpinnings of development work and questions how Christian values are manifest through day-to-day work in the world of poverty eradication.
1. Practical Theology and Faith-based Development
2. Secular and Faith-based Development
Defining development
The shared origins of faith and secular development
Economic growth models of development
Secularization and its impact on development
Faith discourses of development
The capabilities approach, faith and development
3. Three Theological Voices: Discerning faith at work
The three theological voices – explicit, implicit and null
Christian Aid’s identity expressed through the voices
Christian Aid’s values expressed through the voices
Christian Aid’s theologies of international development
Working with Christian Aid’s theologies of development
4. New Life in Christ: A renewed theology of development
A Christology of development for a prophetic future
Christ as equality: A theology of mutual partnership
Conclusion
"The question of how to combine faith and development is critical in the struggle toward justice for every human being. How might Christianity support the work of development? How might aid organizations need to shift to reflect Christian theologies? This book addresses those questions with the case study of Christian Aid, and in particular, issues of Christology and partnership. Well-researched and excellently written, this book will be of use to theologians, development practitioners, and faith-based aid organizations." -- Thia Cooper, Associate Professor, Religion and Latin American, Latina/o, and Caribbean Studies, Gustavus Adolphus College
"This book will prove to be extremely valuable to anyone interested in debates around theology and development, and to those concerned with developing or maintaining an organisational spirituality, especially among Christian development agencies." -- Justin Thacker, lecturer in practical and public theology, Cliff College
