商品簡介
The Church, Authority and Foucault provides a fresh ecclesiological critique that confirms the Church’s vocation to welcome the stranger, honour new wisdom and work for change. The book breaks new ground by using Michel Foucault’s concept of space as a basis for interpreting church as a space of freedom. This leads to a re-evaluation of authority using Foucault’s concept of power-relations. Within this framework, Steven Ogden construes the church leader’s role as principal interpreter of faith. He then examines the inherent risk of misusing authority in ways that diminish the consent of the faithful. Further, Ogden demonstrates the critical role gossip has in ecclesial discourse, exacerbating the plight of the stranger as a consequence of the misuse of authority. Ogden concludes that the Church is called to enable human transformation in ways that challenge and renew structures of authority, within and beyond the Church.
作者簡介
Steven Ogden is Principal of St Francis College Brisbane and senior lecturer in the school of theology, Charles Sturt University. He was formerly Dean of St Peter’s Cathedral Adelaide. In Adelaide, he also taught theology at Flinders University. He has participated in over 80 in-studio radio interviews, regionally and nationally (with interviews in the United States) on theological, ethical and social issues. He is the author of The Presence of God in the World: A Contribution to Postmodern Christology based on the Theologies of Paul Tillich and Karl Rahner (2007).
