The Church, The Far Right, and The Claim to Christianity

Helen Paynter is Director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, and Coordinator of Theological Education. She is the author of numerous titles, among them and Telling Terror in Judges 19. Maria Power is a Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford where she a Senior Research Fellow in Human Dignity at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice. 

Foreword – David Gushee
Introduction – Helen Paynter
From the coal-face
1A Norwegian perspective
Steinar Ims
2From prejudice to pride - towards an organized anti racist community
Henrik Frykberg
3Putting the Semantic Struggle into Practice: A Response to Steinar Ims and Henrik Frykberg.
Hannah Strømmen and Ulrich Schmiedel
The Interfaith perspective
4A Lebanese Perspective on Religion-Inspired Political Extremism.
Martin Accad
5Beyond the Far Right: 'Respectable racism' and British Muslims
Shenaz Bunglawara
6Contextualizing the Claim to Christianity: A Response to Martin Accad and Shenaz Bunglawala
Hannah Strømmen and Ulrich Schmiedel
Politics of the Far Right and the Church
7Encountering and Countering the Far Right in Britain Today
James Crossley
8‘Stop waving crosses around and making them a symbol of hate’: Localised Christian Responses to the Populist Radical Right in the UK
William Allchorn
9Probing Challenges and Chances in UK Politics: A Response to James Crossley and William Allchorn
Hannah Strømmen and Ulrich Schmiedel
Christian Theologians Respond
10The ‘semantic struggle’ against the Christian Far Right: Learning from the Good Samaritan
Nick Spencer
11Challenging Far Right Claims to Christianity: A Northern Irish Perspective
Chris Wilson
12Taking Theology out of the Trap: A Response to Nick Spencer and Chris Wilson. Hannah Strømmen and Ulrich Schmiedel
Conclusion
The church, the far right, and the claim to Christianity: Towards some recommendations. Helen Paynter
Afterword: Lived Theology.
Hannah Strømmen and Ulrich Schmiedel