ABSTRACT
Trying to generate a fresh theological conversation around Africa, however, is not some abstract theological pursuit; it is deeply connected to the strange situation in which the author find himself as a 'Resident Alien' at one of the leading schools of theology in the United States. The intersection between philosophy and theology means that my work moves between critical analysis and imaginative re-description, or between understanding the present and imagining a more hopeful future. The commitment to a new future, to a 'different world right here' has led the author to privilege 'interruption' as a determinative theological category connected to the task of social imagination. The Church as new future is 'gestated in the deeds of everyday', and in very concrete signs and gestures that so often emerge as Sallie McFague's 'wild spaces' within the stubborn persistence of the present world.
