Practical Theology Beyond the Empirical Turn
SCM Press (Verlag)
978-0-334-05899-1 (ISBN)
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)
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).
Acknowledgements vii
Prologue: Beginning at the End of the World ix
Part One: The Changed Climate of Practical Theological
Research 1
1 Research, Relationality and Relationships: New Ontologies in
Critical Context 3
2 Knowing, Knowing What We Don’t Know and Being
Mixed Up: Empiricism, Reflexivity and Representation 18
3 Borrowing, Gifting and Growing Together: Relations between
Theology and Social Research Practices 37
Part Two: Practical Theology as Creative Work 67
4 The Poetics and Politics of Practical Theology 69
5 Reimagining Research as (Creative) Responsiveness 95
6 Theology as Art in Our Troubles 121
Part Three: Makings 147
7 Making One: A Theopoetics of Practice 149
8 Making Two: Heloise and Me, or, On Being a (Practical)
Theologian 168
9 Making Three: Writings in the Disaster 183
Epilogue: Not a Conclusion but a Connection 190
Suggested Reading in Creative Research Methods 195
Bibliography 197
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.07.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 0-334-05899-6 / 0334058996 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-334-05899-1 / 9780334058991 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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