Pub Date : 2020-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-bja10021
J. Butler
Within theological action research the language of discernment has become increasingly important and resonances with spiritual practices such as Lectio Divina have been recognised. This led to practices of corporate prayer being introduced in to the research process. This paper reflects on this experience and identifies key resonances between prayer and theological action research. Through engagement with theological accounts of prayer these resonances are explored turning the question of the place of prayer within theological research on its head. It is not simply that prayer practices add an important dimension to theological action research, but that they actually disclose the ways it is already a practice of prayer. After engaging with potential challenges to such a position through notions of true prayer, control and rigour the paper ends by suggesting that this proposal is not as radical as it first appears, and may instead be an orthodox account of theology.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-bja10020
Simon Hallonsten
Inspired by autoethnography, the article discusses experiences of joint worship between Lutherans and Catholics. Engaging the work of Michel de Certeau, I argue that both ecumenical strategies and ecumenical tactics are ways towards greater unity. Seeing the importance of ecumenical tactics in navigating the liturgy, I suggest that Durheim and Turnboolm’s concept of tactical ecumenism should be expanded to include a critical discussion of ecumenical tactics. Through a short personal narrative, I explore three ecumenical tactics that create spaces of unity. The article concludes with a discussion of possible tactical responses to the question of joint worship and Eucharistic sharing. I especially look at the ecumenical tactic of Eucharistic fasting and a possible sharing of the Eucharistic fast. Through these tactics Catholics and Lutherans can jointly acknowledge the existing division in hope of greater visible unity to come.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-bja10018
David M. Csinos
This article analyzes the United Church of Canada’s vision for becoming intercultural through data generated by qualitative research into the theological meaning-making of children within United Church congregations. The author provides an overview of the broader research project through which this data was generated and background information about Canadian multiculturalism and the United Church’s response to the challenges of multiculturalism, particularly its 2006 document, ‘A Transformative Vision for the United Church of Canada.’ The author presents three points of critique of this document that come into focus when analyzed through the lens of children within United Church congregations. These points include the important step of intentionally listening to voices on the margins, the document’s neglect of individuals and contexts that hold hybrid cultural identities, and its tendency to overlook congregations that are intercultural.
{"title":"Speaking Back: Reading a Christian Denomination’s Vision for Diversity through the Eyes of its Children and Congregations","authors":"David M. Csinos","doi":"10.1163/22144471-bja10018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22144471-bja10018","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article analyzes the United Church of Canada’s vision for becoming intercultural through data generated by qualitative research into the theological meaning-making of children within United Church congregations. The author provides an overview of the broader research project through which this data was generated and background information about Canadian multiculturalism and the United Church’s response to the challenges of multiculturalism, particularly its 2006 document, ‘A Transformative Vision for the United Church of Canada.’ The author presents three points of critique of this document that come into focus when analyzed through the lens of children within United Church congregations. These points include the important step of intentionally listening to voices on the margins, the document’s neglect of individuals and contexts that hold hybrid cultural identities, and its tendency to overlook congregations that are intercultural.","PeriodicalId":37169,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesial Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49313318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.1163/22144417-BJA10004
Christopher Brittain, Andrew McKinnon
As more and more people join social media networks, Christian churches struggle to discern how best to adapt to this emerging cultural phenomenon and employ it in ways that are consistent with Christian beliefs, values, and practices. This essay argues that as Christians explore the potential of digital media, they should not neglect to also reflect deeply on the negative aspects of the medium, which are increasingly coming under scrutiny among social scientists and media analysts. We raise this concern in response to our discovery of the capacity of digital media to contribute to church conflict while we were engaged in ethnographic field research in the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. The essay identifies ways in which digital media exacerbated tensions among Anglicans and Episcopalians in Pittsburgh and concludes with a reflection on the limitations of one of our online attempts to intervene in these dynamics.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.1163/22144417-bja10008
K. Oliver, Stacy Williams-Duncan, E. M. Kimball
The proliferation of religious and spiritual practices in new media spaces presents challenges and opportunities for religious leaders—and for the people who train them. This article reports on an interview-based study of theological educators actively engaged in preparing their students with skills and experiences for online engagement. We present and discuss seven digital literacies for ministry that emerged from our thematic analysis of transcript data and were subsequently refined with a subset of study participants. We conclude with a brief discussion of new initiatives this research has prompted.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.1163/22144417-bja10001
Heidi A. Campbell
Digital ecclesiology has become a popular term over the last decade, surfacing around discussions about churches and their use of technology. It is typically used in broad, undefined ways, either to advocate for church use of digital media, or to debate the social and ethical problems that arise when churches integrate internet technologies into their work. This was seen when Elizabeth Dresher used the term in a 2012 interview about her book Tweet If You ♥ Jesus: Practicing Church in the Digital Reformation. The book focused on best social media practices and the need for churches to engage the internet in their ministries. She argued, ‘this book is kind of a digital ecclesiology,’ suggesting churches that use digital media for ministry function in tune with society’s growing digital environment (NA, 2012).1 More recently, the Aqueduct Project from Moody Bible Institute hosted a roundtable podcast on digital ecclesiology. Here, interviewer Jonathan Armstrong used the term digital ecclesiology to get respondents to either offer a rationale for, or critique of, practices related to the virtual church and the theological issues online Christian community may raise (Armstrong, 2019).2 As these examples suggest, the phrase ‘digital
在过去的十年里，数字教会学已经成为一个流行的术语，围绕着关于教会及其技术使用的讨论而出现。它通常以广泛、不明确的方式使用，要么倡导教会使用数字媒体，要么辩论教会将互联网技术融入工作时出现的社会和道德问题。伊丽莎白·德雷舍（Elizabeth Dresher）在2012年的一次采访中谈到她的书《推特如果你》（Tweet If You）时使用了这个词♥ 耶稣：在数字化改革中实践教会。这本书聚焦于最佳社交媒体实践，以及教会在其牧师中使用互联网的必要性。她认为，“这本书有点像数字教会学”，建议教会使用数字媒体履行牧师职能，以适应社会日益增长的数字环境（NA，2012）。1最近，穆迪圣经研究所的渡槽项目举办了一个关于数字教会学的圆桌播客。在这里，采访者乔纳森·阿姆斯特朗（Jonathan Armstrong）使用了“数字教会学”一词，让受访者对与虚拟教会和在线基督教社区可能提出的神学问题相关的实践提出理由或批评（Armstrong，2019）
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Pub Date : 2019-11-26DOI: 10.1163/22144471-00602009
Henk de Roest and Simon Hill
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Pub Date : 2019-11-26DOI: 10.1163/22144471-00602007
A. Dunlop
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Pub Date : 2019-05-15DOI: 10.1163/22144471-00601002
Roman R. Williams
Visual research shows promise in the study of congregations. And with so many people carrying cameras to worship services in the form of a smartphone, opportunities abound for those interested in visual approaches to engagement and research. This article explores the potential of a participatory action technique known as photovoice in congregational settings through a case study of a church located in the midwestern region of the United States. Photovoice, it is argued, gives participants permission to discuss matters of personal significance, builds relational bridges across differences (in this case, across different age cohorts), and may help a congregation to see itself from new perspectives. Likewise, the materials produced in a photovoice project comprise a rich collection of data that may be analyzed by a researcher to explore themes central to their research agenda. When used in conjunction with familiar ethnographic practices such as fieldnotes and interviews, photovoice can become a valuable component of a project that pursues both research and engagement.
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