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Abstract This book investigates how Christianity changed politics and how politics changed Christianity over the course of the early Middle Ages. Early Christians in the pagan Roman Empire developed a ‘secular’ understanding of politics, where the religious identity of their ruler was irrelevant; by the time the synthesis of early medieval Christianity was achieved in the ninth-century Carolingian Empire, however, a new model of ‘Christian kingship’ had emerged, suggesting that sinners and non-Christians could not be legitimate rulers. The book traces the slow, complex, and only ever partial way in which the concept of ‘Christian kingship’ arose in the Latin West over the five centuries up to 840. It takes a comparative approach that is sensitive to regional variation, the interconnected nature of the post-imperial Latin West, and the continuous influence of the Eastern Roman Empire based in Constantinople, while also drawing on recent work in anthropology and the global history of sacred kingship. R.A. Markus influentially suggested that the early Middle Ages was a period of ‘de-secularization’, and this book provides a detailed exploration of what that would have meant in practice for early medieval politics. It argues that ‘Christian kingship’ arose, above all, not because of ‘Church versus State’ struggles nor legitimizing appeals to irrational religion by rulers, but because of people’s search for good government. Christianity was central to the politics of the early Middle Ages, providing a means for debating and mediating the relationship between rulers and ruled.

Common Awards is a partnership led by the Church of England and Durham University which delivers academic programmes to students preparing for ministry in mainly Anglican training institutions in the UK. In 2016 it launched the Common Awards Hub, a shared central platform offering a wider range of online resources than would otherwise be available to most of its institutions and at a lower cost. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March 2020, the infrastructure was in place to enable Common Awards to respond rapidly to the crisis by providing access to the additional online resources which the situation demanded. This chapter tells the story of how the Common Awards Hub came into being and how it has evolved. It explores its strengths and weaknesses, its impact on students and librarians, and its implications for pedagogy and diversity. It also reflects on the wider vision of the Hub to support lifelong learning within the church.

Este artículo explora como ser “investigador/a activo/a” puede entenderse como una forma de resistencia activa. Sugiere que esta resistencia comienza prestando atención a las formas de violencia que han sido normalizadas o ignoradas. En segundo lugar, la resistencia requiere un compromiso con una diversidad de voces y métodos de investigación, en lugar de depender de narrativas establecidas o métodos probados y testeados. Al hacerlo, dicha resistencia es creativa, al re-imaginar tanto los problemas como las soluciones. Dicha atención, compromiso e imaginación son costosos y requieren que los investigadores desarrollen estrategias de supervivencia. Basándose en el texto de Bev Harrison, “The Power of Anger in the Work of Love,” este articulo sugiere que la ira puede ser una motivación importante en la investigación feminista. En segundo lugar, argumenta que desarrollar una red de aliados es fundamental para la supervivencia, y considera dos comunidades de investigación teológica feminista: Teologanda en Argentina y the Shiloh Project en el Reino Unido. En tercer lugar, se compromete con el trabajo de Nancy Cardoso Pereira, Lucía Riba y Nancy Bedford para considerar como las mujeres latinoamericanas han resistido constantemente la violencia, pero sus acciones a menudo han sido ignoradas. Por lo tanto, se basa en la teoría de Allan Wade de que cualquier acto que busque exponer, prevenir u oponerse a la violencia debe entenderse como resistencia, incluidos los actos de imaginación.

This article considers how recent texts on marriage and relationships from the Methodist Church in Britain (God in Love Unites Us) and Church of England (Living in Love and Faith) engage with Christian traditions of marriage and asks how such traditions might be reimagined so that they help rather than hinder women in resisting domestic violence.

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