Practice Led Theology

Author : Neil K. Ferguson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666760279

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Practice-Led Theology by Neil K. Ferguson Pdf

Following a series of economic and political changes in the late 1980s, art/design schools and performing arts academies were incorporated into the university system. To justify their teachings as academic research, they developed the idea of practice‐led research. Practice-led research recognizes two or more languages—that is, the validity of both explicit/propositional knowledge and embodied/tacit knowledge—allowing for the researcher’s corresponding output, expressed through both the written word and relevant practice. Christians often find themselves living a life of two languages: a set of intellectual beliefs and the practice of being a Christian. This book develops this methodology and translates it for use in theological research. Most importantly, it clearly develops key elements of this methodology using a comprehensive model and detailed definitions. This is a book which not only presents a fully articulated and flexible model of practice‐led research, but also presents Christian researchers with an approach they could incorporate into their theological work.

Author : Neil K. Ferguson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666760255

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Practice-Led Theology by Neil K. Ferguson Pdf

Following a series of economic and political changes in the late 1980s, art/design schools and performing arts academies were incorporated into the university system. To justify their teachings as academic research, they developed the idea of practice‐led research. Practice-led research recognizes two or more languages—that is, the validity of both explicit/propositional knowledge and embodied/tacit knowledge—allowing for the researcher’s corresponding output, expressed through both the written word and relevant practice. Christians often find themselves living a life of two languages: a set of intellectual beliefs and the practice of being a Christian. This book develops this methodology and translates it for use in theological research. Most importantly, it clearly develops key elements of this methodology using a comprehensive model and detailed definitions. This is a book which not only presents a fully articulated and flexible model of practice‐led research, but also presents Christian researchers with an approach they could incorporate into their theological work.

Author : Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802865342

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Christian Theology in Practice by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore Pdf

For the past fifty years, scholars in both pastoral and practical theology have attempted to recapture human religious experience and practice as essential sites for theological engagement -- redefining in the process what theology is, how it is done, and who does it. In this book Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore shows how this trend in scholarship has led to an expanded subject matter, alternative ways of knowing, and richer terms for analysis in doing Christian theology. Tracing more than two decades of her own search for a more inclusive discipline -- one that truly grapples with theology in the midst of life -- Christian Theology in Practice shows not only where Miller-McLemore herself has traveled in the field but also how pastoral and practical theology has developed during this time. Looking forward, Miller-McLemore calls on the academy and Christian congregations to disrupt conventional theological boundaries and to acknowledge the multiplicity of shapes and places in which the "wisdom of God" appears..

Author : Stephen D. Barkley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666768022

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Pentecostal Prophets by Stephen D. Barkley Pdf

Prophets come in many varieties—ecstatic worshipers, inspired preachers, social justice advocates, and even political pundits. Their messages vary accordingly. The purpose of this book is to dig beneath the message to understand the how. How do modern-day prophets experience the prophetic impulse? The phenomenological study at the core of this book answers that question directly by examining the experience of Canadian Pentecostals. From there, the experience of modern-day prophets is compared with Old Testament prophets, with special attention given to Jeremiah. It turns out that prophets today share in the same experience as their Old Testament predecessors. This book can benefit three audiences. For the academy, this work provides the first phenomenological study of prophecy in Canada. For pastors, reading this book will be an exercise in empathy, placing you in the shoes of the prophets in your congregation, helping you to understand what goes on when someone prophesies. For everyday prophets, this book will affirm your connection, through Jesus, to the Old Testament prophetic tradition, enabling you to read those Old Testament books in a new experiential light.

Author : Andrew P. Rogers,Nicola Slee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000330755

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Celebrating the Past, Present and Future of British and Irish Practical Theology by Andrew P. Rogers,Nicola Slee Pdf

Practical theology has become a well-established academic discipline in Britain and Ireland over the past half century, evidenced in its chairs, journals, books, conferences, and contribution to transformed practices. The British and Irish Association for Practical Theology (BIAPT) and its journal, Practical Theology, has had a significant role to play in the story of the discipline. This volume is a celebration of practical theology in Britain and Ireland in all its inventiveness and variety on the occasion of BIAPT’s twenty-fifth birthday. It offers an account of its roots in its emergence from the Scottish Pastoral Association in the 1960s, its trajectories established in the journal Contact/Practical Theology and how human experience has been a constant companion on the journey. The book considers a range of methodologies including engagement with popular culture, public theology, the arts, and the importance of conversation. It explores new shoots in the discipline that consider how sexuality, ethnicity, and different religious traditions may be addressed within practical theology. It concludes by asking how it may be fruitful in the future, by reflecting on the challenges ahead, not least the ubiquity of ignorance. This is a landmark text in the unfolding of British and Irish practical theology in all its glorious distinctiveness, which promises to be a major contribution to international debate in the discipline. The chapters in this book were first published in Practical Theology.

Author : Gary Macy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532645938

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Theology and the New Histories by Gary Macy Pdf

Theology and the New Histories explores how Christianity, as an historical religion, is responding to the challenge of multiple readings of history—women’s history, history written from the perspective of minority groups, new sources of history, including those that are non-Western, and deconstructionist history. These new histories pose challenges to the assumptions of traditional theology. They also affect our understanding of the history of Christianity and of the development of Christian doctrine. Contributors include: Terrence W. Tilley, Justo L. González, Michael Horace Barnes, Vincent J. Miller, Elizabeth A. Clark, Barbara Green, O.P., Ann R. Riggs, Donna Teevan, James T. Fisher, Pamela Kirk, Ann Coble, Franklin H. Littell, Brian F. Linnane, and Margaret R. Pfeil.

Author : CL Wren Radford
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004513181

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Lived Experiences and Social Transformations by CL Wren Radford Pdf

This book argues for the productive and problematic nature of sharing lived experiences as a political and theological practice, drawing on a case study with anti-poverty activists in the UK to argue for a critical, creative, and collaborative approach to engaging with marginalised experiences in practical theology.

Author : Maeve Louise Heaney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567695635

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Suspended God by Maeve Louise Heaney Pdf

Heaney traces the hidden history of music's presence in Christian thought, including its often unrecognized influence on key figures such as von Balthasar, Barth and Bonhoeffer. She uses Lonergan's theological framework to explore musical composition as a theological act, showing why, when and how music is a useful symbolic form. The book introduces eleven ground-breaking theologians, and each chapter offers an entry point into the thought of the theologian being presented through an original piece of music, which can be found on the companion website: https://bloomsbury.pub/suspended-god. Heaney argues that music is a universally important means of making sense of life with which theology needs to engage as a means of expression and of development. Musical composition is presented as an appropriate and even necessary form of doing theology in its quest to engage with the past, mediate truth to the present and tradition it into the future.

Author : Mervyn Davies,Oliver D. Crisp,Gavin D'Costa,Peter Hampson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567143440

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Christianity and the Disciplines by Mervyn Davies,Oliver D. Crisp,Gavin D'Costa,Peter Hampson Pdf

This volume will show how various intellectual disciplines (most found within the modern university) can learn from theology and philosophy in primarily methodological and substantitive terms. It will explore the possible ways in which current presuppositions and practices of the displine might be challenged. It will also indicate the possibilities of both a "Christian Culture" in relation to that discipline or the way in which that discipline might look within a real or theoretical Christian university.

Author : Henk de Roest
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004413238

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Collaborative Practical Theology by Henk de Roest Pdf

In Collaborative Practical Theology, Henk de Roest documents and analyses research on Christian practices as it can be conducted by academic practical theologians in collaboration with practitioners of different kinds in Christian practices all around the world.

Author : Stephen Eugene Parker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1850757461

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Led by the Spirit by Stephen Eugene Parker Pdf

"Led by the Spirit is an interdisciplinary analysis and evaluation of people's claims to divine guidance that contributes to the understanding of these experiences at two levels. In terms of methodology, this study is an exercise in practical theology - a means of deriving explanations of God, self, and world from the actions of a community of faith - with the practices associated with discernment and decision making in the Pentecostal tradition being the focal point for reflection. In terms of content, insight from object relations psychology and Tillich's theology are woven together with explanations from Pentecostal believers to provide a multilayered understanding and evaluation of the meaning and significance of these experiences."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Philip Schaff,Samuel Macauley Jackson,David Schley Schaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Church history
ISBN : UCAL:$C6318

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A Religious Encyclopaedia: Or Dictionary of Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology by Philip Schaff,Samuel Macauley Jackson,David Schley Schaff Pdf

Author : David Bailey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498219426

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Youth Ministry and Theological Shorthand by David Bailey Pdf

In Youth Ministry and Theology Shorthand, David Bailey explores the dialogue between practice and theological education through the lens of youth ministry. This qualitative study illuminates how youth ministers talk about their work amongst young people. Through the slowing down of the youth ministry process it is discovered that youth ministers speak in theological shorthand. Theological shorthand is a paradox: it is both meaningful--it fuels long-term sacrificial service amongst young people--and it is problematic, as it risks untethering youth ministry from the wider narrative of the Christian story. The book will appeal to youth ministers, clergy, academics, graduate and post-graduate students, but also informed volunteers involved in youth ministry. Through the discipline of practical theology, it correlates the voices of the youth ministers, a set of materials used to deepen faith, and contemporary expressions of sung worship. These are then brought into conversation and explored via different aspects of Trinitarian theology to deepen the theological grammar within contemporary youth ministry and to help develop theological literacy.

Author : Adrian Thatcher
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191641091

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The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender by Adrian Thatcher Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender presents an unrivalled overview of the theological study of sexuality and gender. Not merely contentious and pervasive topics, sexuality and gender have escalated in importance within theology. Theologians increasingly agree that even the very doctrine of God cannot be contemplated without a prior grappling with each. Featuring 41 newly-commissioned essays, written by the foremost scholars in the discipline, this authoritative collection presents and develops the latest thinking in the area. Divided into eight thematic sections, the Handbook explores key methodological approaches, concepts, and issues, as well as current controversies within various denominations. Selected essays draw on reason as a distinct source of theology, discussing evolutionary biology and behavioural genetics, psychology, anthropological research, philosophical research, and queer theory. It examines the history of in theologies of sexuality and gender, with close analysis of the Bible and the Christian tradition. The final section considers theology in relation to different expressions of sexual identities. This volume is an essential reference for students and scholars, which will also stimulate further research.

Author : Kathleen A. Cahalan
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814639283

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Introducing the Practice of Ministry by Kathleen A. Cahalan Pdf

Ministry is often examined in terms of who the minister is, not what the minister does. But the vocation to ministry must be understood as a call to identity as well as to practice, one that is rooted in Jesus' life and ministry as well as the Spirit's charisms. InIntroducing the Practice of Ministry Kathleen A.Cahalan defines ministerial leadership as carried out through the practices of teaching, preaching, pastoral care, worship, social ministry, and administration for the sake of nurturing the life of discipleship in the community of believers. In her examination of charisms for each of the practices of ministry, Cahalan presents readers with a Trinitarian foundation, noting that the practices of discipleship and ministry have their origin in the very practices of God." Kathleen A. Cahalan is associate professor of theology at Saint John's University School of Theology, Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota. She is author of Formed in the Image of Christ: The Sacramental-Moral Theology of Bernard Häring (Liturgical Press, 2004) and Projects That Matter: Successful Planning and Evaluation for Religious Organizations (Alban Institute, 2003). She is the past-president of the Association of Practical Theology. "