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Anarchic Spirit

Interpreting the Bible and the World in troubled times

Anarchic Spirit

Interpreting the Bible and the World in troubled times

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£19.99

Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334067009
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 31/08/2026
Width: 14 cm
Height: 21.6 cm

In a world in which our stories, troubles and complicities are entangled, might we also find in the Bible people with similar experience? In a world in which uncertainty abounds but the resurgent desire for mastery only deepens the polycrisis, can we seek out faith that takes uncertainty seriously, in conversation with the Bible? In a world and Bible in which multiple injustices endure, where’s the prophetic doubt which dares to question the permanence of the world as it is and offer glimpses of the world that might become?

Building on his previous works, Holy Anarchy and God the Child, Graham Adams’s latest book addresses an array of contemporary concerns (Empire; economic, gendered and racialised injustices; Whiteness and Christian nationalism; and more). This book employs an imaginative mix of biblical genres and offers a hermeneutic of creative disruption, discerning evocative signs of the Anarchic Spirit who destabilises rigid boundaries between insiders and outsiders, disrupts dominant power dynamics, and beckons to a hazy horizon where a new world is defiantly being born. 

Introduction: Ahead to Galilee Part A: Elohim Chapter 1: Identities: In the Midst of Dislocation Chapter 2: Systems: In the Face of Empires Chapter 3: Becomings: In Pursuit of Promise Part B: Ephphatha Chapter 4: Identities: In amongst the little Chapter 5: Systems: In resistance to Mammon Chapter 6: Becomings: Do not hold on to me Part C: Ekklesia Chapter 7: Identities: What God declares clean Chapter 8: Systems: Under the nose of the Beast Chapter 9: Becomings: For the healing of the nations Conclusion: the greatest of the shrubs

Graham Adams

Revd Dr Graham Adams is Tutor in Mission Studies, World Christianity and Religious Diversity, also Postgraduate Lead, at Luther King Theological College, Manchester.