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Life on the Breadline

By Chris Shannahan

Life on the Breadline

By Chris Shannahan

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Academic theology stands at a crossroads. Will it rise to the challenge and focus its energy on the development of a fieldwork-led theology of liberation that can resource the struggle to make poverty history?
Life on the Breadline represents the first fieldwork-based book by an academic theologian to identify, explore and analyse the spectrum of Christian responses to austerity-age poverty in the UK. Rooted in an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis of multidimensional poverty, political discourse and extensive qualitative research, it develops a groundbreaking theological analysis of the impact of governmental austerity policies since the 2008 financial crash.
In Life on the Breadline, Chris Shannahan identifies and critiques a spectrum of Christian responses to poverty and sows the seeds of a new theology of liberation, demonstrating that the Church faces a Kairos moment in its engagement in the public sphere and its commitment to 'transform structural injustice'.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
242
Release Date:
2025-11-28
Publication Date:
2026-01-13
Publisher:
SCM Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0334063698
ISBN13:
9780334063698
Weight:
419 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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