The Hybrid Church in the City focuses on the importance of urban space as a way of reinterpreting the mission and identity of the church for the twenty-first century. Christopher Baker uses the idea of the Third Space (a concept widely used in post-colonial and cultural studies) to offer a way of understanding the new form of the city - namely the diversity of the hybrid, post-colonial and postmodern urban space. In The Hybrid Church in the City, Christopher Baker deploys thinkers like Homi Bhabha and Leonie Sandercock to argue that the church should closely follow the grain of hybrid cities, including new forms of civil society and systems of governance, in order to occupy the fluid spaces created by the interaction of both networks and institutions, of the local and the global, and religion and secularity. He offers several case studies to back up his case for the development of what he calls local practical theologies which focus on developing partnerships with both faith and...

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