Come and See

Cultural Witness for a World in search of God

Oliver Wright, Graham Tomlin (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2026
SCM Press (Verlag)
9780334066903 (ISBN)

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Recently there has been a renewed interest in cultural circles in the Christian faith, whether in terms of the high-profile conversions of people such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, or the renewed recognition of the impact of Christian faith on culture through figures such as Tom Holland. At the same time, our culture is going through huge change with the rise of AI, social media and political populism. How then should the church respond? What kind of witness is called for in this cultural context?

A new generation of theologians and apologists are looking again at the question and nature of Christian witness in this fresh context. No longer can – or indeed ought – we assume a common language or cultural background in order to ‘proclaim the Gospel’. A Christian ‘witness’, rather, can be conceived as more of a whole life vocation, pointing to what the individual has seen in Jesus Christ. The life of the witness, in turn, then, becomes part of the medium of the message – “to the ends of the earth”.

Come and See: Cultural Witness for a World in search of God is not a book about evangelism. It is a collection of essays from theologians, artists, ethicists, musicians, people working within and outside the church, exploring different facets of what it means to be a witness to Jesus Christ in today’s world. The conversation will be prompted by, and in turn will prompt, explorations in Old and New Testament theology, Christian doctrine, liturgical studies, arts and aesthetics, Continental philosophy, and Christian ethics.

Ultimately, the challenge provoked by this book is not merely to embrace the calling of Christian witness, but to embark on the vocation of witnessing as a vocation to full and flourishing life for our neighbours and for ourselves. The witness, to paraphrase what Karl Rahner once said, does not communicate something but oneself.

Oliver Wright is an Assistant Chaplain at Magdalen College, Oxford, and a DPhil student at Keble College, Oxford. He has written for Seen & Unseen magazine. Graham Tomlin was Bishop of Kensington within the Diocese of London from 2015 to 2022 and has been the dean and then principal of St Mellitus College. He is currently the director of the Centre For Cultural Witness.

Foreword – NT Wright and/or Tom Holland
Introduction (+Graham Tomlin and Oliver Wright)
+Graham Tomlin – A Theology of Witness for a Secular Age
Esau McCaulley – Witnessing While Black
Andrew Davison – Participating in Cultural Witness
Luke Bretherton – Witnessing as Citizens
Carmody Grey & Oliver Duerr – Witness and the Idea of the Human
Simeon Zahl – Witnessing the Seen and the Unseen
Benjamin Schliesser – Cultural Witness in the Early Jesus Movement
Sara Schumacher – Witness in Art
Simon Duerr – Witness in Rome and Philippi
Oliver Wright – Witness as Performance: recent trends in philosophical-theology
James Mumford – Witness and Politics
Belle Tindall – The Witness of a Samaritan Woman
Christine Schliesser – Witness and Public Theology
Matt Williams – Music as Witness
Miroslav Volf and Drew Collins – Witness and Flourishing life
Hannah Steele – Witness and Evangelism

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.7.2026
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-13	9780334066903 / 9780334066903
Zustand	Neuware