Following Jesus in Invaded Space

A minister of the Uniting Church in New South Wales, Budden (public and contextual theology, Charles Sturt U.) considers what is accepted as normal in social analysis and theology in Australia, with particular reference to Indigenous people and the invasion of the country. He explores how people defend their personal, social, political, and economic interests through their description of the world and their theology, how they define frontiers and deal with people on those frontiers. Among his perspectives are fitting invasion and dislocation into the European world, theology as the art of naming where God is, whether God actually matters, and the practice of being church. There is no index. First published by Pickwick Publications. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)