Clive Pearson

Apocalyptic Good News

Theology

“It’s time! Dean Drayton argues that it is time to recognize that the Christian faith must express itself through a recovery of an apocalyptic gospel. It is time to come to terms with our place in an ever-expanding universe and the threats posed by the Anthropocene. It is no longer sufficient to fall back on understandings of an Enlightenment-derived self and a denominational Christ.”

Beyond the Academy

Theology

“David Moe writes in response to the ongoing violence of the military coup in Myanmar. There is an urgency in his work. His context is far removed from the ‘unhappy gap’ that exists between the academy and lives of ordinary believers. What unfolds is unlike public theology in the West. In a manner that is both prophetic and irenic, Moe crafts a lived Asian public theology that listens to the grassroots that inspires and which it serves in return.”

Drinking from the Same Well

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Lydia Johnson has written a most timely book in terms of need. The most usual lines of inquiry for a diasporic and cross-cultural inquiry into the Christian faith have focussed on biblical hermeneutics, theological revision, and matters to do with culture and the refashioning of identity. Here we have a key text that concentrates upon pastoral care and counselling. It is speaking into the globalized world of the mass migrations of people and speaking into the consequences of such.”

Restoring Identities

History & Biography

“Restoring Identities offers a window into the current stage of decolonizing a received Christianity through an Oceanic lens. Of particular interest is the intersection running throughout the volume between talanoa and a moana hermeneutics (on the one hand) and history and the reading of faith’s entanglement with empire. The foundations are being laid for further phases of work on a Christian identity and its always ambivalent relationship to culture and theology.”