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: Podcast with John Milbank on the Credit Crunch

Faith and 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.  The Centre's new book on the credit crunch, including essays by John Milbank, Luke Bretherton and Angus Ritchie, will be published in the spring

Jellicoe 75th anniversary

2010 is the 75th anniversary of the death of Fr Basil Jellicoe, the slum priest and social reformer who inspired the foundation of CTC's internship community.  In addition to the video above, the website will soon feature an article by Prof Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of A History of Western Christianity, on Jellicoe's legacy.  Jellicoe Society website