The Place of the Parish: Imagining Mission in Our Neighbourhood

Martin Robinson
SCM Press, 2020, ix + 160pp., pbk

The Church’s mission, Robinson argues, depends on ‘how we discern what God is doing’ (vii). In The Place of the Parish, Robinson’s aim is to argue that the Church’s ability to do this ‘hinge[s] on how we interpret the context in which we are located’ (vii). Put otherwise, the Church must engage with and be deeply committed to those places in which it finds itself, because it is by paying attention to the places we live in and the people that we encounter there in all their particularity that we will come to learn more of God’s ways with the world.

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The Place of the Parish

From a variety of contexts, rural, inner-city, Anglican and independent and drawing on specific examples linked to the so-called `New Parish Movement', Martin Robinson demonstrates how a theology of place is made manifest in the mission of the church today.