The Sunday Assembly and Theologies of Suffering

ISBN-13: 9780367276997 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 160 str.

Katie Cross

Opis

This book draws on an ethnographic study of the Sunday Assembly, "a Godless congregation", to reflect on how the Church might better deal with suffering, lament and theodicy.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Theological roots: The evils of theodicy; 2 Temperate atheism: The philosophical basis of the Sunday Assembly; 3 "Live Better, Help Often, Wonder More": The Sunday Assembly; 4 The theologian and the atheist church: Fieldwork at the Sunday Assembly; 5 "Celebrating life, passing over suffering": How the Sunday Assembly responds to adversity; 6 "Pause a while": Middle space, Holy Saturday, and theological "holding" of suffering; 7 Creating a culture of lament: How the Church can resist "passing over" suffering; Conclusion

O autorze

Katie Cross is Christ’s College Fellow in Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.