Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/1756073x.2023.2246852
James Butler
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2246853
Harry Gibbins
shrines, and religion and grief. Although in the UK we are inclined to expect that whatever is happening in the United States will soon be over here: I didn’t find the book had that cutting edge, or that of an article, but rather the looking back of a text book, which it essentially is. The chapter on the hospice movement, new in this edition, isn’t new to the UK. I found the discussion of the expressions of grief of Princess Diana somewhat familiar, but in the final chapter on death and grief, the description of bereaved parent’s self-help groups was fascinating. Dennis Klass describes what looks like a new kind of religious community formed of bereaved parents. There are insights for making sense of grief which ministers can take into pastoral practice. My own hope is that there might be a renewal of All Soul’s services where ritual and remembering might enable corporate and personal grief to be addressed creatively by churches. I recommend this book for the student of religion, and those Christians new to funeral ministry who will benefit from understanding the direction of practice and the experience of the bereaved, as well as those in a multi-faith chaplaincy context where reading it with others will benefit the whole.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2234162
Steven K. Chen
ABSTRACT This paper aims to suggest a new Taiwanese perspective on truth which integrates content and practice to rethink the current theological education. I argue that an appropriate approach to do theological education requires a holistic viewpoint on truth; in this viewpoint, the content and practice of theology are interdependent. The article seeks to do three things. First, it claims that one problematic aspect of Taiwanese Christianity is a long-standing unmoved understanding of 道 (Dao, logos), which causes a disconnection between churches and theological schools. Next, the article argues that the concept of 道 (Dao, logos) in the Bible is not unmoved and irrelevant to surrounding context, but is instead an embodied truth. Finally, the article shows that the Taiwanese have already had Taiji (太極) and Taijiquan (太極拳) as an important part of their cultural heritage, both of which view opposite things as integrative, which provides great help to the discussion. In the light of these insights, I propose a new holistic approach towards 道 (Dao, logos) when Taiwanese Christians are imagining the future of theological education.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/1756073x.2023.2246851
J. Chapman
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2237742
Richard Burgess, Mark Garner, D. Eshun
ABSTRACT This paper reports the findings of a research project into Ministerial Theology Programmes (MTPs) at three Higher Education institutions in England. These degree-level courses provide practice-oriented theological education for students in positions of leadership in churches outside the mainstream historic denominations. Anecdotal evidence from MTP tutors is that the churches represented are overwhelmingly Charismatic-Pentecostal, and the students differ significantly from those in virtually all other degree courses, being mostly middle-aged and of African or Afro-Caribbean background. The research reported here is the first extensive and systematic investigation into MTP student bodies, their expectations and approaches to learning, and the implications for designing and teaching MTPs.
{"title":"The pedagogical challenges of teaching theology and mission to students from non-traditional diaspora churches in Britain","authors":"Richard Burgess, Mark Garner, D. Eshun","doi":"10.1080/1756073X.2023.2237742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2023.2237742","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper reports the findings of a research project into Ministerial Theology Programmes (MTPs) at three Higher Education institutions in England. These degree-level courses provide practice-oriented theological education for students in positions of leadership in churches outside the mainstream historic denominations. Anecdotal evidence from MTP tutors is that the churches represented are overwhelmingly Charismatic-Pentecostal, and the students differ significantly from those in virtually all other degree courses, being mostly middle-aged and of African or Afro-Caribbean background. The research reported here is the first extensive and systematic investigation into MTP student bodies, their expectations and approaches to learning, and the implications for designing and teaching MTPs.","PeriodicalId":43627,"journal":{"name":"Practical Theology","volume":"16 1","pages":"420 - 437"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44060588","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 : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2246855
Kevin A Mirchandani
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2246850
Dongho Han
approaches and methods developed within practical theology offer a much clearer, rigorous and more direct engagement with practice. For me lived practice as a theological voice offers rich insights because things are messier and more integrated than our traditional theological categories often allow. As practice become more of a focus in other sub-disciplines of theology, greater collaboration will greatly enrich the theology being done. The opportunities for further exploration demonstrate the significant and generative nature of this book. I highly recommend it as a significant contribution to the discussion around formation, and a corrective to an overconfidence both in churches’ metanarrative and to the confidence in Christian practices to provide good formation. My sense is that in the last two chapters Leith is grasping for a more integrated and messy account of formation than Bonhoeffer and Coles can offer her. But far from detracting from this book, I think it offers clear ways forwards and my hope is that Leith, or others, will pick up this rich seam which she has opened up, and study these concrete, messy and quotidian accounts of formation ‘in the world’. Such accounts would add further weight to this important book and the convincing and engaging argument which Leith puts forward.
{"title":"A gift grows in the ghetto: reimagining the spiritual lives of Black men","authors":"Dongho Han","doi":"10.1080/1756073X.2023.2246850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2023.2246850","url":null,"abstract":"approaches and methods developed within practical theology offer a much clearer, rigorous and more direct engagement with practice. For me lived practice as a theological voice offers rich insights because things are messier and more integrated than our traditional theological categories often allow. As practice become more of a focus in other sub-disciplines of theology, greater collaboration will greatly enrich the theology being done. The opportunities for further exploration demonstrate the significant and generative nature of this book. I highly recommend it as a significant contribution to the discussion around formation, and a corrective to an overconfidence both in churches’ metanarrative and to the confidence in Christian practices to provide good formation. My sense is that in the last two chapters Leith is grasping for a more integrated and messy account of formation than Bonhoeffer and Coles can offer her. But far from detracting from this book, I think it offers clear ways forwards and my hope is that Leith, or others, will pick up this rich seam which she has opened up, and study these concrete, messy and quotidian accounts of formation ‘in the world’. Such accounts would add further weight to this important book and the convincing and engaging argument which Leith puts forward.","PeriodicalId":43627,"journal":{"name":"Practical Theology","volume":"16 1","pages":"528 - 529"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49509180","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 : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2219922
M. Naidoo
ABSTRACT Epistemological injustice refers to situations where individuals or groups are systematically excluded from accessing or contributing to knowledge because of their social identities. Theological knowledge and practices have generalised masculine concerns and experiences and space must be made to value women’s knowing to create inclusive, equitable and emancipating practices that is owned and lived out within the institution. This article explores epistemic violence against African women in theological education that limits their possibility of participation, highlighting how women are still denied full recognition. It engages the practical theological task of making a critical analysis of the gender system by identifying specific frameworks of knowledge that validate and legitimise ways of knowing and practices in educational spaces. By critiquing the positioning of women, anti-women frameworks can be deconstructed and reformed. This article offers interventions that must be realised that enable women to reflect and theorise about their lived experiences. Through the process of finding voice women discover their own subjectivity which dislocates labels, and thereby undoes this violence.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1080/1756073x.2023.2213129
Benedict Agbo, E. Sylvanus
{"title":"Exploring how trends in Nigerian popular gospel music shape religious pedagogy","authors":"Benedict Agbo, E. Sylvanus","doi":"10.1080/1756073x.2023.2213129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073x.2023.2213129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43627,"journal":{"name":"Practical Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44232635","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 : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1080/1756073x.2023.2213128
J. Bell
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