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Young, Woke and Christian brings together young church leaders and theologians who argue that the church needs to become increasingly awake to injustices in British society.

The experience of reproductive loss raises a series of profoundly theological questions: how can God have a plan for my life? Why didn't God answer my prayers? How can I have hope after such an experience? Who am I after such a loss? Sadly, these are questions that, along with reproductive loss, have largely been ignored in theology. Karen O'Donnell tackles these questions head on, drawing on her own experiences of repeated reproductive loss as she re-conceives theology from the perspective of the miscarrying person.Offering a fresh, original, and creative approach to theology, O'Donnell explores the complexity of the miscarrying body and its potential for theological revelation. She offers a re-conception of theologies of providence, prayer, hope, and the body as she reimagines theology out of these messy origins. The Dark Womb is for those who have experiences such losses and those who minister to them. But it is also for all those who want to encounter a creative and imaginative approach to theology and the life of faith in our messy, complex world.

Editorial 7 Part One: General Approaches to Asian Theology Asian Christian Theologies: Present Tasks and Future Orientations 11 PETER C. PHAN Theologies in Asia and Asian Theologies. A Radical Paradigm Shift of Doing Theologies from Contexts 22 HUANG PO HO Asian Theology and the Particularity of Christianity 33 CATHERINE CORNILLE Part 2. Inculturation of Christianity in Particular Asian Contexts Paying Attention to Indian Tantric Buddhism 47 THIERRY-MARIE COURAU A Metaphysical Approach to Theology in Taiwan: Dialogues between Catholicism and Daoist Teachings of Laozi and Zhuangzi 58 KATIA LENEHAN Productive Imagination in the Story Theology of Choan-Seng Song 67 YA-TANG CHUANG Asian Liberation Theologies in Times of Populism 76 DANIEL F. PILARIO Vietnamese Theology in the Making 87 TRAN VAN DOAN Biblical Interpretation in India from Subaltern Perspectives 96 ANTONY JOHN BAPTIST Part 3. Asian Questions and Approaches to Christian Ethics Catholic Theological Ethics in Asia: From Conflict to Conversation 107 MARIA JOHN P. SELVAMANI Women Decolonizing Theologies of, for and by Southeast Asians 117 SHARON A. BONG Part 4. Theological forum Catholicity as a Principle for a Dissenting Church 129 WILIBALDUS GAUT Johann Baptist Metz (1926-2019). A Personal and Critical Tribute 135 ERIK BORGMAN

Editorial 7 Part One: The Global Issue Amazonia 4.0: An Innovative Socio-Bio-Economy 14 for a Standing Forest CARLOS A. NOBRE, ISMAEL NOBRE, MARITTA KOCH-WESER The Ecological Crisis and Tropical Forest Ecosystems: 24 Cases from Africa, Asia, and Melanesia NICOLE BERNEX Extractivism: A Perspective of Social Ethics 36 GERHARD KRUIP Part Two: Analysis of the Issue The Politics of Forest Conservation: Ethical Dilemmas 49 and Impact on Peacebuilding LÉOCADIE LUSHOMBO Amazonia Gift: to Right the Wrongs 61 CEDRIC PRAKASH Supporting Indigenous Peoples to Defend Amazonia 73 BIRGIT WEILER Part Three: Reflection on the Issue A New Look at Creation Theology from Amazonia 85 FERNANDO ROCA ALCÁZAR Gift and Task: From Differentiation to Solidarity 95 CRISTINO ROBLES PINE Ecclesial Unity and Diversity from the Amazon Synod 105 VÍCTOR CODINA Part Four: Response to the Issue Incarnation, Territoriality, and New Pastoral Paths: 119 the Itinerary of REPAM and the Amazon Synod MAURICIO LÓPEZ OROPEZAR Social and Environmental Pastoral Theology in the Church 130 in Africa: the Case of the Congo Basin Ecclesial Network RIGOBERT MINANI BIHUZO Theological Forum Canonical Observations on the Instruction 143 The Pastoral Conversion of the Parish Community MARTIN REHAK A Contextual Reading of the Instruction 148 The Pastoral Conversion of the Parish Community in the Service of the Evangelizing Mission of the Church CAROLINA BACHER MARTÍNEZ

What are the ecclesiological challenges and opportunities raised by technology? How have developments related to the COVID-19 global health crisis impacted churches, forcing a swift move to mediated and online worship? And how will this change the shape churches of theological and programmatic choices for years to come? Drawing together a diverse group of theologians and media scholars, this volume considers the key theological question churches and religious leaders need to engage with as they look towards long term strategies involving church life and technology.

How can contemporary art reimagine the body of the mother in relation to a feminist Christian conception of the divine? And, at the level of culture, what might be the implications of the maternal body imaged as ordinary, multiple, generative and divine? Following movements in her own visual art practice, and traversing the discourses of feminist theory, contemporary art and philosophy of religion, artist and scholar Rebekah Pryor considers philosopher Luce Irigaray's key notions of sexuate difference, the sensible transcendental and "love at work in thinking" on the way to proposing alternate artistic and theological motifs of the maternal body and the divine for our time. Five new motifs emerge, challenging iconographic conventions and proposing an expanded vision of the mother and the divine in feminist theology and contemporary art.

Drawing from real-life pastoral examples, socio-political analysis, and the theme of Eucharist as a means to human healing and restoration, A Redemption Song outlines and explores what a black British pastoral theology might look like. A landmark text, it offers critical reflection and practical tool for those working and ministering within multicultural communities, especially those with large African-Caribbean populations.

Drawing deeply on his experience of the Wiltshire landscape, Andrew Rumsey in his new book - English Grounds - presents a series of personal essays that explore deep questions around church, place, nature, heritage and Englishness.

What is church? What spaces does church occupy? Can ecclesial space exist beyond the boundaries of church? In An Interweaving Ecclesiology Mark Scanlan offers a fresh vision of Christian community as constructed for and by participants as potential ecclesial spaces combine to create an experience which we call "church". Drawing in particular on research into the dynamic between youth groups and the churches within which they operate, Scanlan brings us a distinct approach to the church in mission that can nuance and develop the tired and sometimes flawed thinking around Fresh Expressions and pioneer ministry. Combining deep ecclesiology with a practical approach, this book will be useful to students and scholars of pioneer and youth ministry and those with a wider interest in how churches operate.

Inclusion has recently become a high priority issue within the development sector, brought to the fore by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development's commitment to leave no one behind. Practices within the remit of inclusion often focus on increasing access and meaningful participation, with emphasis placed on bringing those at the margins to the centre. Theologies and Practices of Inclusion challenges such centre-focused practices from a global perspective, based on research conducted within the Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation Tearfund and beyond.Offering inspiration for practitioners within the sector and faith-based organisations in particular, as well as an academic contribution to the fields of international development studies and theology, the book aims to bridge theology and practice in an accessible way.Consisting of 13 chapters and case studies, this book draws on the wisdom of a diverse team of contributors at the forefront of international development, working in a variety of contexts. These include South Africa, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Ecuador, Panama, Bolivia, the Philippines, Iraq, Egypt and the UK. Highlighting 'journey', 'change' and 'belonging' as three key aspects of inclusion, the book explores the outworking of theologies of inclusion within organisational practice.With a foreword by Ruth Valerio, and an afterword by Catriona Dejean.

Judges is one of the most misunderstood and underused books in the Old Testament - it is a text people outside of the higher echelons of Old Testament academia are afraid of. Too often it is dismissed as too violent, outrageous, or simply too puzzling for practical use - or full of tales which are only of any use as children's stories or as simple moralising tales for adults.Focusing on core theological themes across the book, this commentary is predicated on the idea that far from being too awkward to touch, Judges in fact holds up a mirror to today's world, with its stories of abuses of power, war and violence, and the human tendency towards individualism. Overall, the commentary argues that in Judges we are given the story of a people who keep getting life and faith increasingly wrong, and the story of God's response to their cry for justice and mercy.Bridging the gap between accessibility and scholarly rigour, this commentary offers an excellent tool for ordinands, students, teachers in higher education and preachers to engage with the theology of the book in its Old Testament context as well as how its message is revealed in the New Testament and continues to speak today.

If the church is ever tempted to think that it has its theology of grace sorted, it need only look at its reception of queer black bodies and it will see a very different story. In this honest, timely and provocative book, Jarel Robinson-Brown argues that there is deeper work to be done if the body of Christ is going to fully accept the bodies of those who are black and gay. A vital call to the Church and the world that Black, Queer, Christian lives matter, this book seeks to remind the Church of those who find themselves beyond its fellowship yet who directly suffer from the perpetual ecclesial terrorism of the Christian community through its speech and its silence.