Living Culture, Living Christ: On Becoming Fully Human
Ebook
This book addresses the widespread dismay and perplexity over our divided culture and searches for firmer foundations. Alan M. Suggate retrieves from danger of oblivion a radically different basis for culture. It is humanistic, giving primacy to persons as rooted in their physical and social nature. It defends them against the vast digital and sex markets, and seeks the healing of relations between women, men and children. Globally it dissects English exceptionalism, seen over Brexit, and our imperial role and legacy, especially over black people. It presents a spectrum of cultural practices, scientific, social and artistic, where intellect and emotion combine in personal commitment, imagination and creativity. For in real life fact and value are always interwoven.
He searches for forms of Christianity which best ground this culture and proposes an integralist understanding of the Christian faith, which is modern, but rooted in the undivided Church of the first five centuries: the world is always held within God’s grace and centred on Christ, which gives it cultural dynamism. Christianity is a practice which embraces worship, reflection and action in the world.
Living Culture, Living Christ is for anyone concerned with our cultural predicament and the quest for a vision and stance which can inspire a more healthy and flourishing common cultural life and a credible interweaving of worship, faith and action in the world.
The saying that wisdom is the fruit of experience is abundantly vindicated in Alan Suggate’s passionate yet reasoned defence of an Anglican-inspired Christian humanism. Liturgically rooted and politically engaged, this book represents the fine distillation of a lifetime of reflection and points us with real insight to the kind of public theology urgently needed in modern Britain.
This splendid book is the mature fruit of years of teaching, social engagement and Christian practice. It is humanely Anglican, an apologia for the compelling vision of Christian humanism, and a vivid example of the contribution of Anglican social thought to the current cultural situation. Alan Suggate gives the basis of a narrative of Christian living that is in the world, and with the world, but rightly critical of some stories that govern the world. His narrative is presented with honest realism, unafraid of theological depth and yet resolutely eschewing the culture wars which bedevil present debate. It is pleasingly readable with short sections that do not labour the point.
- Title: Living Culture, Living Christ: On Becoming Fully Human
- Author: Alan M. Suggate
- Publisher: Sacristy Press
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781789592450, 9781789592436, 1789592437, 9781789592443, 1789592445, 1789592453
- Resource ID: LLS:9781789592450
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-07-20T10:02:03Z
Alan M. Suggate is a classicist, theologian and Anglican. From long experience, he draws together his reflections on our culture and the Christian faith. He taught Classics in state schools, Religious Studies in the College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham, and Theology in the University of Durham.