In a world in which our stories, troubles and complicities are entangled, might we also find in the Bible people with similar? In a world in which uncertainty abounds but the resurgent desire for mastery only deepens the polycrisis, can we seek out faith that takes uncertainty seriously, in conversation with the Bible? In a world and Bible in which multiple injustices seem permanent, where’s the prophetic doubt which dares to question the permanence of the world as it is and offer glimpses of the world that might become?

Working with a mixture of methods to address an array of contemporary concerns (Empire; economic, gendered and racialised injustices; Whiteness and Christian nationalism; and more), this book creatively discerns signs of the Anarchic Spirit who destabilises rigid boundaries between insiders and outsiders, disrupts dominant power dynamics, and beckons to a hazy horizon where a new world is slowly being born.

Adopting a mix of biblical genres and building on his previous works, Holy Anarchy and God the Child, The Anarchic Spirit offers a hermeneutic of creative disruption to highlight the presence and evocative activity of the Anarchic Spirit.