TMTC Visiting Fellow Hadje Cresencio Sadje explores the work of Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT), formally Christian Peacemaker Teams, in a new Pandora Press publication entitled Theology at the Border: Community Peacemaker Teams and the Refuge Crisis in Europe.
Sadje explores how CPT Europe’s work can inform a contextually sensitive, socially relevant, and liberating form of Christian faith that is immersed in the everyday lives of people, especially refugee lives. Although it is not solely a Christian organization, the work of CPT rests on a strong theological affirmation of immersion as a concrete approach to doing theology at the borders of this world. The work of CPT Europe shows how theological reflection at the borderland should not remain an academic exercise, but instead, it ought to emerge in the context of common people, especially the poor, the vulnerable, and the oppressed. In brief, this booklet argues that theology cannot be done without taking lived realities into account, and it demonstrates this conclusion by showing how CPT Europe provides a paradigm for doing theology – seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching God – at the borderland.
The book is available to purchase online directly from Pandora Press or from Amazon.
