Pub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.1080/1756073x.2023.2196190
Lahphai Awng Li
Since almost all Christians in Myanmar are taingyintha Christians, Myanmar must have a taingyintha theology that makes a serious attempt to analyze the reality of the socio-political context of Myanmar and evolve a meaningful theology that is relevant and contextual to the contemporary reality of Myanmar.In this article, the author highlights that the task of taingyintha Christians is to struggle for tiangyintha liberation from their socio-politically discrimination and Burmanization in their homeland, to empower the inner person of the taingyinthas, and to strive for their empowerment in all spheres, and to lead inclusive humanism for the goal identity and humanity of the taingyinthas within the human community. The objective is to emerge taingyintha theology not only from the experience of taingyinthaness in their socio-political setting but also from the fundamental biblical categories like equality, justice, peace, and hope for socio-political transformation. In interpretation, an inductive theological method will be applied to examine the taingyinthas’ struggle for identity in the context in which they struggle in order to actualise their vision of a genuine federal Union and to empower taingyinthas to be the transformational role in the contemporary socio-political setting.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2208909
E. Mackenzie
ABSTRACT The role of the Bible within practical theology and Christian formation more generally continues to be a topic of debate. In this article, I explore the use of the Bible in practical theology through the lens of biblical theology, a sibling discipline that is also concerned for the role of Scripture in the life of faith. As well as describing differences between the disciplines, I seek to show how biblical theology offers some distinct challenges to the way in which many practical theologians use the Bible. I also trace key themes within biblical theology in the work of three British practical theologians, all of whom attend closely to the breadth of the story that Scripture tells.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2194113
A. Rogers
ABSTRACT British and Irish practical theology has been exercised in its recent history about the apparent elusiveness of the Bible within practical theology. In this essay, I want to address how we might now move beyond the pathology of Bible and practical theology, to thinking about the ways in which the Bible may function normatively in practical theology. This was prompted by teaching reflexivity in a professional doctorate programme and noting the almost complete absence of the Bible from the literature on this topic. How is it that a book of mirrors and examinations, vigilance and virtue, powers and unveilings has been excluded from our reflexivity curriculum? As a case study of the Bible’s normativity, and inspired by using M. C. Escher mirrors in the classroom, this essay looks into five biblical mirrors to engage in a practical theological reading of Scripture that speaks to reflexivity and its conundrums. Through a variety of normative moves, I argue that the mirrors offer epistemological and ontological insights that show reflexivity to be a practice with its own theological integrity. This theological reflexivity is then worked out in a number of actions for the classroom and beyond.
英国和爱尔兰的实践神学在其最近的历史中一直在实践神学中对圣经的明显难以捉摸进行练习。在这篇文章中，我想谈谈我们现在如何超越《圣经》和实践神学的病态，去思考《圣经》如何在实践神学中发挥规范作用。这是由于在一个专业博士课程中教授反身性，并注意到在这个主题的文献中几乎完全没有圣经。一本关于镜子和考试、警惕和美德、力量和揭示的书怎么会被排除在我们的反身性课程之外呢?作为圣经规范性的案例研究，并受到M. C. Escher在课堂上使用镜子的启发，这篇文章着眼于五个圣经镜子，以参与一个实用的圣经神学阅读，讲述反身性及其难题。通过各种规范运动，我认为镜子提供了认识论和本体论的见解，表明反身性是一种具有自身神学完整性的实践。这种神学反身性随后在课堂内外的一系列行动中得以体现。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1080/1756073x.2023.2206200
A. Brunsdon
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2211876
Elizabeth Allison-Glenny
ABSTRACT This paper offers an autoethnographic account of perinatal mental illness in ministry, exploring how this impacted the ability to theologically reflect. It explores theological reflection as an embodied activity, described in procreative language. In particular, it stresses the prestige theological reflection is given in Baptist ministry as a tool for encountering difficulty, and how the inability to do so in the moment of crisis created a heightened sense of loss.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2208015
Elizabeth Millar
ABSTRACT Using the Indigenous Three Sisters gardening technique as a guiding metaphor, this paper will explore a wholly embodied response to the disturbing headlines of the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at residential schools across Canada in 2021. Just as the Indigenous Three Sisters cooperate together for mutual flourishing, the Beatitudinal trio of humility, grief, and meekness will be promoted as characteristics of a wholly embodied response to this specific issue and the large issue it represents, which is an oppressive and troubled historic relationship between Indigenous and white settlers. This paper will use Terry A. Veiling’s double exegetical approach of ‘on earth as it is in heaven’ as the underlying practical theology framework. Perspectives of various Indigenous Canadian theologians along with hopeful stories of white settler Canadian church leaders whose performative and incarnational responses resemble the three sisterly Beatitudes will be included throughout. I see the flourishing of the Three Sisters together as a helpful and practical metaphor for the Canadian church as we consider how humility, grief, and meekness can help us neighbour well with Indigenous people.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2212432
S. Zaidi
ABSTRACT This paper is based on a keynote presentation given at the British and Irish Association of Practical Theology (BIAPT) 2022 online conference with the theme ‘Flesh & Blood: Embodiment & Practical Theology.’ It is an Islamic tradition when beginning a talk, or giving a paper, to start by giving praise to God and I would like to do that, and to say that any good in this material is from God and any mistakes are my own. It is a huge honour for me to be delivering this keynote. I am here as the product of my mentors, teachers and friends and I would like to thank them all. In this paper I share my unexpected journey to Rome, Italy. First, to avoid misunderstandings and miscommunication I will explore brief definitions. I will then turn to author reflexivity and methodology. Second, I share four autoethnographic vignettes written to explore the theme of embodiment and Practical Theology from the perspective of a Brown-British-Muslim-Woman. Third, I discuss themes of intersectionality and embodiment, and offer some thoughts on what we may do to get to know one another.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2217071
Seoyoung Kim
Christianity may indeed merge in the modern era. Two things stood out as I engaged with Modern Virtues. Firstly, that Paul’s metaphor for virtue and Christ-likeness as a garment – indeed a wardrobe (following Burke’s “wardrobe of moral imagination” through habituation) – has goaded me to be a more visible virtuous presence as one who seeks to follow Christ in a conflicted social era. Virtue has not been squeezed out by modernity. Secondly, that I can see the results of Wollstonecraft’s courage and insight in thirteen women across both sides of my family who were suffragettes, and particularly Christian suffragettes. In reading Modern Virtues, I am grateful that I can now understand why. In this sense, Dumler-Winckler has achieved what she set out to do, that is, to vindicate the pursuit of virtue in its broadest modern sense, and to introduce every reader to Mary Wollstonecraft as theologian and ethicist.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2213526
L. Dallas
ABSTRACT The field of narrative medicine, or medical narratology, has opened up an exciting and creative range of ways to help medical practitioners understand more deeply patients’ accounts and thereby offer more effective patient care. The insights offered by medical narratology remain relatively unexplored in Christian pastoral care literature, yet hold much wisdom for those who care pastorally in contexts involving illness. This paper draws on the medical narratology of Arthur Frank to suggest an approach to pastoral listening that allows ‘breathing space’ for the multiple strands or ‘plotlines’ of experiences of those with chronic or long-term health conditions. It critiques the application in medical narratology of Aristotelian plot structure as too reductive to speak truthfully to the multiply-stranded narratives of chronic illness, and instead suggests the British television soap opera as a contemporary narrative form offers a metaphor which can help Christian pastoral carers to position themselves as long-term listeners to those with long-term illness.
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