Transgressive Devotion, the new book by my supervisor Natalie Wigg-Stevenson, finally come in the ma
Transgressive Devotion, the new book by my supervisor Natalie Wigg-Stevenson, finally come in the mail today. I was fortunate to work with Natalie on one of the final drafts of this book, and to have the opportunity to study it last summer. It is a profound reflection on the roles we perform in our church communities, our relationship with God, and for some of us in our academic disciplines, exploring how those roles work together, and what happens when they don’t.I recommend it to anyone who is engaged with any of these roles, academically or in everyday life, as well as those who want to inquire into the practices of Christian faith from the outside.“Transgressive devotion seeks to be the kind of theology that revels in fraying a little at the edges to make more space for welcome: the kind of theology our theological traditions actually invite us to do, because if we don’t do it they’ll die. But of course, as every theologian also knows: without death, there is no new life. Theological knowing always contains the mystery of its shadow side: that is, theological unknowing. Transgressive Devotion seeks this unknowing. Not to describe God, but to conjure her: in other words, a prayer.” -- source link
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