Webinar

Networked social movements, networked public theology: the implications of the Hong Kong protests to World Christianity

Dr Calida Chu, Teaching Fellow, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

When?

Wednesday 2nd March, 4.00-5.30pm GMT

About

When talking about public theology in World Christianity, current trends tend to focus on one context, whether it is based on a geographical location or a platform (e.g. social media). The Hong Kong protests, as networked social movements, show that the flow of information is not as static as one may think, due to the highly decentralised and fluid nature of the movements.

Drawing theories from sociology and migration studies, this paper aims to problematise the concept of public theology as a contextual theology, and suggests that, due to increasing digital literacy and the high mobility of Hong Kongese migrants since 2020, the future of Hong Kong public theology should be seen as a ‘networked public theology’, which transcends geographical locations.

Taking examples of the Milk Tea Alliance in Asia and several pro-democratic Hong Kongese pastoral leaders in different continents, the paper elaborates the phenomenon of networked public theology and offers some preliminary observations of how this may assist World Christianity scholars to ponder the issues of social justice with the oppressed and marginalised groups.

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A webinar brought by Theological Education in the Anglican Communion (TEAC) to be held on Thursday 10th February 9-11am GMT; 1400-1600 in Pakistan; 1430-1630 in India and Sri Lanka.

You are warmly invited to attend TEAC’s next webinar on ‘South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Theological Education.’

Revd Dr Muthuraj Swamy, CCCW Director

Featuring:

Revd Professor Israel David, United Theological College, Bangalore, India

Miss Lubna Younas Dewan, Principal, St. Thomas’ Theological College, Karachi, Pakistan

Revd R T B Abeysinghe , Lecturer, Theological College of Lanka, Pilimatalawa, Sri Lanka

• To register for the webinar, please send an email to Revd Dr Muthuraj Swamy.

Our first seminar of the Lent term is: A gospel for the poor: misión Integral and the Latin American evangelical left in the shadow of the Cold War

Dr David C. Kirkpatrick, Associate Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, James Madison University, Virginia

2nd February 2022, 4-5.30pm GMT, online

Drawing upon bilingual interviews and archives and personal papers from three continents, Kirkpatrick adopts a transnational perspective to tell the story of how a Cold War generation of Latin American evangelicals developed, named, and exported their version of social Christianity to an evolving coalition of global Christians. Latin Americans drew upon their unique biographies as religious minorities and their fraught history of negotiation with US missionaries in the region. In turn, global conversations between Latin America and the Global North reshaped politics, widened theologies, and provoked an explosion of mission and relief organizations around the world. This story also provides a blueprint for an alternative scaffolding of the Evangelical Left, one not designed from centres of power but from the margins of the global Cold War.

To register and for Zoom link, please email Rachel Simonson, our Centre Coordinator.

For more information, download the flyer.

Happy New Year to all our Friends and Library Users

We are delighted to be open again. To facilitate social distancing in these virulent times, we are limiting the number of library users at any one time to three.

Thank you for your understanding and see you soon.

The CCCW is establishing a week-long annual residential Summer Institute on the theme ‘World Christianity and Global Challenges’ to take place in Cambridge every year.

The first Institute will be from 18-22 July 2022. It is a wonderful opportunity for Christians from the Global North and South to gather together and to learn about Christianity in the other parts of the world. It is also an opportunity to build relationships as World Christians together.

More details of these and of this Summer’s Institute 2022, as well as our new Series of Seminars for 2022 are below on our new Event Card:

In response to the recent guidance to work from home where possible and reduce contact indoors, we have closed our doors, but we are making Click & Collect available instead. Email the librarian a maximum of five books that you wish to borrow, and we will arrange a time for you to collect them from our front door. This week only, 13-17 December 21. Make your Christmas a time of inspirational reading about the church worldwide!

Please note that we will be closed over the holiday period from 20th December 2021 to 4th January 2022.

We all wish you a very joyful and blessed Christmas and New Year!

— Ruth MacLean, Librarian

“She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21

You are warmly invited to join the book launch and discussion of Nourishing Mission: Theological Settings, by Graham Kings. Published by Brill, 2022.

To be held on Wednesday 16 February 2022, 4.00-5.30 pm (GMT), in person at Westminster College, Cambridge, and on Zoom.

Chair: Dr Jenny Leith, Dean of Studies, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide.

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To register, and receive the Zoom link, please contact:

Rachel Simonson, Centre Coordinator, email: centre[at]cccw.cam.ac.uk

Speakers

Rt Revd Prof Joseph Galgalo, Assistant Bishop All Saints Cathedral Diocese, Kenya and former Vice Chancellor of St Paul’s University, Limuru for ten years.

Prof Kirsteen Kim, Professor of World Christianity, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA, and an Editor of the Brill series, ‘Theology and Mission in World Christianity’.

Prof David Ford, Emeritus Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge.

Revd Dr Muthuraj Swamy, Director, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide.

Nourishing Mission contains theological treasures that show the intriguing coherence of an unfolding vision. Earthed in the ministry of a priest, missionary, academic theologian, and well-travelled bishop, the five settings – Kenya, Cambridge, Islington, Sherborne and Lambeth – mingle art, poetry and archives with theology, history and spirituality. Memorable scenes include a Kenyan liturgy on the environment and Bishop Gitari’s preaching, the drama of worship on the streets of London, a Deuteronomic prequel to the Prodigal Son, flashes from the lives of Henry Martyn and Stephen Harding, the birth of South Sudan and the historic dialogue of John Stott and Basil Meeking.

Rt Revd Dr Graham Kings, Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Ely, and Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, founded the CCCW in 1996.

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The Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide purchased a large number of new books for the library prior to Covid, and continued to receive a number of books as gifts. Due to lockdowns and closure, the usual processing and cataloguing of these stalled. Now that the library has fully reopened, the work to prepare them for the library has restarted and they are now beginning to make their way onto the shelves!

Here is the first batch which are now ready for the shelves, and ready for borrowing. They are displayed on the ‘New Books’ shelves:

One of these is the long awaited ‘The Letters of Henry Martyn: East India Company Chaplain’ edited by Scott D. Ayler. In this book, Ayler has collated fully annotated transcriptions of all Martyn’s 327 surviving letters and provided a substantial introduction to Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia.

Do pop into the library and have a read of them yourself!

— Ruth MacLean, Librarian

The final seminar of the Michaelmas term is “Reading Simone Weil in East London”.  It will be given by Dr Anna Rowlands of Durham University and to register for the Zoom link please contact Rachel Simonson, Centre Coordinator.

This presentation draws on empirical research conducted with Jesuit Refugee Service in London. It is grounded in the experience of refugees living in destitution in the UK asylum process into dialogue with the work of Simone Weil. These experiences are connected to work which began in dialogue with St Augustine and Hannah Arendt on time and temporality in the context of refugee experiences.

Dr Anna Rowlands is St Hilda Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice, Dept of Theology and Religion & Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University, UK. She is also  Chair, Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice and Co-Investigator Refugee Hosts (AHRC/ESRC). Dr Rowlands is author of Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times (Bloomsbury, 2021) and co-editor of T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology (Bloomsbury, 2021).