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The Shape of our Repentance: Identity Politics within the Church
To be Christian is, of course, to be given and to assume an identity. However, the politics of identity – often described as the forming of exclusive political alliances based on particular identity markers such as gender, sex, race, disability, neurodiversity – is contentious in the Church. For some, it is a new and destructive progressivism, a secular faddism, inimical to Christian teaching. For others, it is the contemporary fuel that powers the engine of the Gospel’s injunction to do justly and to love mercy.
I begin with a contextual note about being a College Chaplain before some reflections on the potential divisiveness of identity politics. This is followed by a discussion of the importance of its critical edge and how it provokes us to think about the work of theology and the nature of the Church. Whilst these reflections are the fruit of conversations within a variety of ministerial settings, discussion with theologians of different stripes, and reading the work of scholars, I have opted not to offer a critique (or appreciation) of individual works or positions.
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