Ingleby

"Until we treat Christians from the South as equals, we shall not know ourselves or them. It is very difficult to learn the truth from one’s subordinates. We have to change the relations of power or fear to relations of love."¹ (2)

"Culture itself, and certainly the Christian community, needs to be seen as an in-between space – a place of translation and negotiation, something different from what we have now"² (2)

o

"If I may apply this for a moment to us in this country (Britain), the trouble with the English is that much of our history happened overseas, so we don’t know what it means. (Bhabha 2004, 239) The immigrant has come back to remind us, uncomfortably, what that meaning is (241)."³ (2)

o

"We could think of this as what Manuel Castells calls a project identity. Castells suggests that we all begin with what he calls a legitimising identity (what we grew up with) and where we feel that this is threatened it may produce a resistance identity. But the healthy response is to go on to a project identity, where we construct a new identity in response to our overriding life goals (Castells 2004, 8). Tempelman calls this a civic identity, whereby identity is not a given substance, but something which is determined in a pragmatic way in an ongoing dialogue between my own tendencies, impulses and needs and those of the community and even with those outside the community (Tempelman (1999, 23). So the Apostle Paul is prepared to become ‘all things to all people’ so that by all possible means he might save some. He adds ‘I do all this for the sake of the gospel’ (1 Corinthians 9: 23). The project determines the culture, rather than vice versa."⁴ (3)

o

"We can no longer work out, for example, what it means to be British. That is a good thing. All the forms of foundationalism – based on denomination, kinship, locality, ethnicity, credal orthodoxy, gender, easily identifiable allies – are becoming confusingly muddled. Rejoice! The kingdom of God is neaR" ⁵(4)

1J Ingleby , ' Hybridity or The Third Space and How Shall We Describe the Kingdom of God', Encounters 11 (2006), 2 [available Redclife site]

2J Ingleby , ' Hybridity or The Third Space and How Shall We Describe the Kingdom of God', Encounters 11 (2006), 2 [available Redclife site]

3J Ingleby , ' Hybridity or The Third Space and How Shall We Describe the Kingdom of God', Encounters 11 (2006), 2 [available Redclife site]

4J Ingleby , ' Hybridity or The Third Space and How Shall We Describe the Kingdom of God', Encounters 11 (2006), 3 [available Redclife site]

5J Ingleby , ' Hybridity or The Third Space and How Shall We Describe the Kingdom of God', Encounters 11 (2006), 4 [available Redclife site]