Humankind faith7/6/2023 ![]() Humanising Incarceration: A Prison Chaplain’s Response to ‘a Rising Toll of Despair’. MPhil, Department of Theology, University of Birmingham. The Church and Its Social Context: An Experimental Redescription of the Church in Its Social Context-with Special Reference to the Church of England. I do so whilst recognising the hopelessness that must be truthfully honoured in seeking and maintaining tragic hope. I then turn to the topic of hope and explore its texture at a political, institutional and personal level. 5 I discuss how mass incarceration is frequently detrimental to the emotional/relational, intellectual/psychological, spiritual/transcendent and physical/material aspects of being human. Returning to the four-part holistic Christian anthropology I introduced in Chap. The Parable of the Prodigal Son narratively illustrates the prodigality of compassion such love engenders. The Trinitarian thinking I apply here suggests that, in the Incarnation, there is an outworking of divine love. Imago Dei and ‘Being-in-Communion’ are two theological lenses I use in constructing this anthropology and show how hard-line penal narratives undermine the human dignity these Christian theological understandings seek to foster. ![]() As my overarching concern is one of humanising incarceration, here I explicate a model of what it is to be human, an anthropology. This chapter marks my entering of the third phase of my enquiry following the pastoral cycle: Reflecting on Practice. ![]()
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