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London Anarchist Bookfair - 18/10/08

The ASN will be represented at the bookfair and will be running a stall for Anarchist Studies

See London Anarchist Bookfair

ANARCHISTS ORGANISE PISS-UP IN BREWERY (01/08/08)

To celebrate the second birthday of the establishment of ASN in November 2007, members organised a tour of Nottingham's Castle Rock Brewery. Hangovers contributed to it taking this long to post up the announcement.

I am a research student (and part-time teacher) at the University of Kent at Canterbury, currently in the final stages of my part-time PhD.

The topic of the PhD is Christian anarchist theory. It therefore focuses not on particular movements but on thinkers who have written about how this or that passage of the Bible implies a political system best characterised as anarchism. In a way, the aim is to gather all the main theoretical contributions of Christian anarchist thinkers and weave them together in one generic theory of Christian anarchism.

The thinkers in question include L Tolstoy, J Ellul, V Eller, D Andrews, M C Elliott, N Berdyaev, A Ballou, P Chelcicky, D Day, P Maurin, A Hennacy, as well as a few others.

In the form in which it was submitted for examination, the PhD is structured along the following themes:

• the Sermon on the Mount as an anarchist manifesto;

• Jesus' illustration of this manifesto in his life and further teachings;

• the Christian anarchist understanding of the (tragic) history of Christianity and church-state relations;

• how Christian anarchists respond to the state (including a discussion of Romans 13 and "Render unto Caesar");

• how this alternative Christian anarchist way of life is to be exemplified by the "church";

• a few examples of such Christian anarchist responses;

• prophecy and social eschatology.

I'm always keen to hear from people interested in this area, so please feel free to get in touch with me to do so.

More info on my "webfolio": http://www.pebblepad.co.uk/kent/webfolio.aspx?webfolioid=23470

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