Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Patrick Brittenden, "Algerian and Christian: Christian Theological Formation, Identity and Mission in Contemporary Algeria" (Regnum Books, 2025)
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Patrick Brittenden, "Algerian and Christian: Christian Theological Formation, Identity and Mission in Contemporary Algeria" (Regnum Books, 2025)
Algerian and Christian are two words that many people do not put together. Dr. Patrick Brittenden does. In this episode, we talk with Patrick about his new book Algerian and Christian: Christian Theological Formation, Identity and Mission in Contemporary Algeria (Regnum Books International, 2025). He invites readers into the complex, often painful, yet deeply hopeful journey of following Jesus in a land where faith in Christ is seen as foreign. In a country founded on a vision of being irreducibly Muslim and Arab, what does it mean to be both fully Algerian and fully Christian? Through the lenses of Berber identity, Algerian Islam, and the influence of state education, Brittenden offers a compassionate and contextual approach to theological formation. At the heart of this book is the idea of liminality—the experience of living between worlds. While often marked by pain and marginalization, this in-between space can also become a place of freedom, transformation, and fruitful mission. This is a book about pain and possibility. About being “in but not of” the world. And about how embracing this in-between space can shape a liberated identity - for the Church, and for the world it seeks to serve.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion
View all episodes
By New Books Network
4.3
2828 ratings
Algerian and Christian are two words that many people do not put together. Dr. Patrick Brittenden does. In this episode, we talk with Patrick about his new book Algerian and Christian: Christian Theological Formation, Identity and Mission in Contemporary Algeria (Regnum Books International, 2025). He invites readers into the complex, often painful, yet deeply hopeful journey of following Jesus in a land where faith in Christ is seen as foreign. In a country founded on a vision of being irreducibly Muslim and Arab, what does it mean to be both fully Algerian and fully Christian? Through the lenses of Berber identity, Algerian Islam, and the influence of state education, Brittenden offers a compassionate and contextual approach to theological formation. At the heart of this book is the idea of liminality—the experience of living between worlds. While often marked by pain and marginalization, this in-between space can also become a place of freedom, transformation, and fruitful mission. This is a book about pain and possibility. About being “in but not of” the world. And about how embracing this in-between space can shape a liberated identity - for the Church, and for the world it seeks to serve.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion
More shows like New Books in Religion
View all
Homebrewed Christianity
565 Listeners
RadioWest
778 Listeners
In Our Time
5,478 Listeners
New Books in History
214 Listeners
New Books in Military History
161 Listeners
New Books in Sociology
46 Listeners
New Books in Political Science
62 Listeners
New Books in Anthropology
52 Listeners
New Books in Psychoanalysis
190 Listeners
New Books in African American Studies
164 Listeners
New Books in Environmental Studies
25 Listeners
New Books in American Studies
30 Listeners
New Books in Intellectual History
60 Listeners
The Bible For Normal People
3,285 Listeners
TRIGGERnometry
2,112 Listeners
Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
7,226 Listeners
Straight White American Jesus
1,942 Listeners
Know Your Enemy
2,064 Listeners
The Ezra Klein Show
15,973 Listeners
American Prestige
1,046 Listeners
Ones and Tooze
344 Listeners
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
665 Listeners
Close Readings
77 Listeners
Biblical Time Machine
215 Listeners
Data Over Dogma
1,427 Listeners