Theology on Full Alert [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION The Revised and Enlarged Second Edition When we produced the first edition of Theology on Full Alert we were by no means sure of our audience. Our brochure in its vivid red cover and with its attention-seeking title was itself an attempt to heighten the awareness of all theological educators that they could no longer go on in the old ways, as though Britain were not a religiously plural land within a religiously plural world. But since early when the first edition was prepared, a number of changed have taken place in the whole scene which suggest that our original concerns have been taken on board by large numbers of theological teachers. We need no longer knock on the door from outside, but much rather, we have been invited into the inner sanctum to share from within the wrestlings and strugglings with these issues. Of course there remain certain institutions in the UK which still sleep the dogmatic slumbers of ages past, and for whom no alarm bells have rung, but these are few and far between. All the other indicators suggest that British theological education is well wide-awake to the issues we have been speaking about, and the need for a second edition of Theology on Full Alert is itself the evidence for that. So let us briefly list the things that have happened in the last two years. In this period we have seen the newly formed Association of Centres of Adult Theological Education grow in influence. Theojogy on Full Alert was, in at least one of its intentions, produced as a discussion document for the High Leigh Conference of AGATE in September 1984. Commission C of that Conference was devoted exclusively to studying the issues raised by Theology on Full Alert, and produced a set of