What’s On

• When theology goes public the subaltern way, subaltern public theology evolves. In that evolution, the search for its implications within a 21st century post secular British public sphere today becomes immanent. Public theology thus far has been engaging on a theological relevance of public issues. But subaltern public theology offers a different perspective of public theology which is to engage on the public character of theology in the public sphere from the sites of subalternity. The British public sphere in the 21st century has been post-secular with faith(s) now on the margins according to the recent
  census, xenophobia on the rise, hunger and poverty growing by leaps
  and bounds due to the rise of the cost of living and dehumanisation of people seeking sanctuary continuing unabated. In such a context, subaltern public theology with its de-colonial methodology offers a new vision for a public God-talk from the sites of subalternity,
  unsettling both theos and logos in theology by seeking to explore public character and public meaning of theology today with an aim to transform our public sphere.
• Raj Bharat Patta, celebrates his identities in multiple belongings, which include Dalit, Christian, Asian, (Im)migrant, theology, ministry, Lutheran, Methodist, India, British, church, academy, postcolonial, public sphere, husband, father and friend. Though a Lutheran minister from India, he currently serves as a recognised and regarded minister of the Methodist Church in Britain at the United Stockport Circuit. He completed his PhD from the University of Manchester. He is an author of Subaltern Public Theology: Dalits and the Indian Public Sphere (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

For more on the Sydney Martin Memorial Lectures, please see this link.

As the New Testament invites us to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, or refers to Christ who always leads us and opens us up to our eternal purposes, or, indeed, declares that Christ is the goal of all things and that all have come to be and are created for him, thus also might Jesus Christ be understood as the map or “GPS” for who we are, what we do, and where we are going. These lectures present Jesus in cartographical perspective, lay out historic christological models and illuminates how they have functioned cartographically, and invites us to imagine afresh how Jesus the Christ remains the pathway to divine truth and the fullness of (creaturely) life.