Celebrating the Past, Present and Future of British and Irish Practical Theology: Roots, Shoots and Fruits

ISBN-13: 9780367535360 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 198 str.

Andrew P. Rogers; Nicola Slee

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Roots  1. Soil, roots and shoots: the emergence of BIAPT  2. Keeping Contact: traditions and trajectories of British and Irish practical theology as evidenced in the history of BIAPT’s journal  3. The human face of God: notes on a journey through practical theology  Part II: Methodologies  4. Theology in practice, in an age of wizards, hobbits and vampires  5. Creative arts-based research methods in practical theology: constructing new theologies of practice  6. No longer ‘speaking truth to power’  7. Conversations in practical theology  Part III: Pluralities  8. Shoots of equal marriage and partnership in the Church of England: a harvest rooted and nurtured through practical theology  9. Doing diaspora practical theology: insights into how culture, ethnicity and national identity shape theological practices and expressions of UK-African diaspora churches  10. Pluralising practical theology: international and multi-traditional challenges and opportunities  11. Practical Theology on the Island of Ireland  Part IV: Challenges  12. The ubiquity of ignorance: a practical theological challenge of our time  13. Back to the future: intercultural, postcolonial and inter-religious streams in practical theology  14. What comes next? Practical theology, faithful presence, and prophetic witness