Jesse A ZinkFaithful, Creative, Hopeful
Fifteen Theses for Christians in a Crisis-Shaped World
Jesse Zink is the principal of Montreal Dio, an ecumenical theological college affiliated with McGill University, and canon theologian in the Anglican Diocese of Montreal. He was born in Canada and raised and ordained in The Episcopal Church. His previous books include Backpacking through the Anglican Communion and A Faith for the Future. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Introduction
Polycrisis and Christian Witness
Apocalyptic Clarity
1. A crisis-shaped world requires apocalyptic clarity
2. Economic structures are the greatest obstacle to Christian witness
3. Christian formation is not failing. It’s being defeated
Resistant Ethos
4. Christians offer attentiveness to a distracted people
5. Enough is a response to a world of more
6. The catholicity of the Christian community is its response to a
globally-connected world
7. In an angry world, the Christian answer is mercy
8. Christian witness is rooted in hope—even if we don’t want it to be
Resistant Practice
9. Place matters: Christian witness begins in particular and specific
locales
10. In a time of widespread migration, Christians must embrace their
identity as wanderers as well
11. Public, shared places resist the dominance of the market.
Building them up is part of Christian ministry
12. Food is at the center of the church and must be at the center of
Christian witness
Renewed Church
13. In a mistrusting world, the church is called to be a community of
responsibility and solidarity
14. The church’s future is an ecumenical one—but a very specific kind of
ecumenism
15. The Eucharist sets the agenda for the church
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
