Practical Theology Beyond the Empirical Turn

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Practical Theology Beyond the Empirical Turn offers a sustained, critical interrogation of the turn towards social research and methodologies in Practical Theology which has transformed the discipline over the past forty years. It places the discipline’s current research practices within the context of wider theoretical and methodological developments and the climate disaster. The work maintains that current circumstances require a radical reassessment of the goals and processes of practical theological research and that artistic and creative methods must be part of this transformation. Heather Walton embodies her understanding of the vocation of the discipline in reflective and creative modes of expression. This work is essential reading for all those researching, writing or teaching Practical Theology today.FRONT COVER IMAGE CREDIT: Lou Davis, Grace (2016)

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-07-31
Mått:200 x 20 x 140 mm
Vikt:290 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:SCM Press
ISBN:9780334058991

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Heather Walton is Professor of Theology and Creative Practice at the University of Glasgow. A life writer and theologian, her other books include Writing Methods in Theological Reflection, Not Eden: Spiritual Life Writing for This World and Theological Reflection Methods 2nd Edition (with Elaine Graham and Francis Ward).

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With delicious wit and gorgeous prose Practical Theology Beyond the Empirical Turn identifies the creative possibilities empirical theological work has long incubated to offer up a whole new range of epistemological and methodological resources for the field.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements viiPrologue: Beginning at the End of the World ixPart One: The Changed Climate of Practical Theological Research 11 Research, Relationality and Relationships: New Ontologies in Critical Context 32 Knowing, Knowing What We Don’t Know and Being Mixed Up: Empiricism, Reflexivity and Representation 183 Borrowing, Gifting and Growing Together: Relations between Theology and Social Research Practices 37Part Two: Practical Theology as Creative Work 674 The Poetics and Politics of Practical Theology 695 Reimagining Research as (Creative) Responsiveness 956 Theology as Art in Our Troubles 121Part Three: Makings 1477 Making One: A Theopoetics of Practice 1498 Making Two: Heloise and Me, or, On Being a (Practical) Theologian 1689 Making Three: Writings in the Disaster 183Epilogue: Not a Conclusion but a Connection 190Suggested Reading in Creative Research Methods 195Bibliography 197