"Baker, James and Reader have produced a remarkable text that genuinely opens up new possibilities for theology and philosophy. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail, would seem to be the right maxim here. We are grateful to the authors for this new mode of religious engagement with public space, for the common good." Martyn Percy, University of Oxford
Contents: Introduction: A philosophy of Christian materialism - entangled fidelities and the public good; Relational Christian realism - the what and the why; Philosophy and Material practice: Deleuze, Latour, Badiou; Engaging the theological I: God; Engaging the theological II: creation, the human, and redemption; Practices in Christian materialism and relational Christian realism: urban community empowerment; Education and relational Christian realism; Entangled fidelities and environmental issues; Christian materialism and the contours of a new political imagination; Bibliography; Index.