Welcome

The Contextual Theology Centre is based in the East End of London. Few areas have such a diversity of faiths and cultures, or as positive an experience of them living and working together. The Centre brings Christian faith into an active dialogue with the context in which people live and work - primarily through congregational participation in community organising.  This local, inter-faith engagement is the basis for our research and internship programmes, and for the training resources we produce for the wider church.

NEW: Video with Diarmaid MacCulloch on the Jellicoe Community

NEW: CTC Director blogs on 'Dispatches' documentary about East London Mosque

New book on credit crunch

The Centre's new book on the credit crunch, including essays by John Milbank, Luke Bretherton and Angus Ritchie, will be published in advance of the General Election.  Crunch Time: A Call to Action  will explore London Citizens five-point response to the credit crunch.

The Centre held a day conference on Christian responses to the great recession, at which leading academics and financiers backed London Citizens' call for an anti-usury law - a report and podcast are now available online. 

Oxford events attract 800

Over eight hundred Oxford students have taken part in Crunch Time - a week of events promoting the Centre's Jellicoe internship programme through churches, chapels and chaplaincies.

2010 is the 75th anniversary of the death of Fr Basil Jellicoe, the slum priest and social reformer who inspired this link between Oxford and East London.  Later this month, The Church Times will carry articles by Prof Diarmaid MacCulloch and Simon Cuff on Jellicoe and the community of interns founded in his memory.