Bread of Life in Broken Britain: Foodbanks, Faith and Neoliberalism

by Charles Pemberton

The return of Christian social service to the centre of British political life through the emergence of the foodbank movement has elicited a range of ecclesial responses. However, in their urgency and brevity these Church responses fail to systematically integrate political critique and social analysis, nor do they undertake a sustained integration of the recent gains in political theology with the realities of our current 'mixed economy of welfare'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0334058961
• ISBN13: 9780334058960
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: SCM Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"