Angelic Exchanges: Speaking of God in the public sphere

The Salvation Army today faces a new public with even newer questions. Angelic Exchanges, authored by Malcolm Irwin, explores how The Salvation Army can dialogue with and speak into this public domain.

Does our engagement in the public sphere mean that we have to learn to speak a new, more publicly-open language?

Do we have to translate our distinctive Salvationism into a new vocabulary that a de-secularised public might potentially (re)value?

Does this practice of translation involve dangers or is the process of translation, with its demands of humility and mutual learning, the only position left from where we can honestly speak of newness and transformation?

This paper goes head to head with these questions in the hope of fuelling the continuing 'public witness' and 'public worship' of The Salvation Army today.

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