Pub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2006.11759050
R. James
Whereas the study of Scripture centres on exegesis the meditation of Scripture centres on internalising and personalising the message. The written word becomes a living word addressed to you .... Take a single event like the resurrection or a parable or a few verses or even a single word and allow it to take root in you. Seek to live the experience, remembering the encouragement of lgnatius of Loyola to apply all our senses to the task. Smell the sea. Hear the lap of the water along the shore. See the crowd. Feel the sun on your head and the hunger in your stomach. As you enter the story not as a passive observer but as an active participant remember that Jesus lives in the eternal now. Hence you can actually encounter the living Christ in the event, be addressed by his voice and be touched by his healing power.lt can be more than an exercise of the imagination; it can be a genuine confrontation. Jesus Christ will actually come to you. (Forster 1978: 26)
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Pub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2006.11759057
Michael W. Brierley
Summary Pastoral theology has often reflected on the experience of different types of chaplaincy or sector ministry, but it has not reflected hitherto on chaplaincy to bishops. Such ministry, while involving small numbers of people and limited to certain denominations, nevertheless raises significant wider issues about church leadership and how it is supported. This article aims to rectify the deficit of attention to bishops' chaplaincy by identifying its distinctive features; outlining eight tasks that the work involves; offering reflections on pastoral experience of the role; and drawing on these details to suggest a theology of such ministry, based on the theology of David Stancliffe.
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Pub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2006.11759058
J. Leach
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Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2005.11759008
Paul Ballard
Summary The ‘good death’ has become part of the pastoral care of the dying. It is a spin-off from the increasingly widespread introduction of palliative care. At heart such care is about giving people dignity and worth. But there are issues that arise: • Setting up norms and thus, the idea of failure;• Death can become anodyne;• What about customer choice?• How can we meet the demands of pluralism?• The loss of the communal dimension of death;• The question of ‘the beyond’.
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Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2005.11759013
P. Sheldrake
Summary The article explores the historic and contemporary meaning of cathedrals as sacred spaces. It suggests that cathedrals should be understood as ‘spiritual texts’ and offers a theory of interpretation. The first part of the article also briefly discusses the original role of cathedrals in cities as expressions of an understanding of the world and of human existence. The second part of the article explores the theological problem of conceiving cathedrals as emblems of the sacred in the city and the practical problem of how to handle such emblematic places in our late-modern or postmodern culture.
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Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2005.11758994
Mark W. Bennett
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Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2005.11759020
J. Foskett
Summary This article tells the story of the Southwark Pastoral Care and Counselling Scheme. It began in 1971 and was the first of its kind in the UK, working from the ‘bottom-up’ to provide support and to develop pastoral care and counselling in the Anglican Diocese of Southwark by involving clergy and laity in ‘basic groups’. The story of these groups is told here: their waxing and waning over the last thirty years; the tensions between pastoral authorities and pastoral practitioners; whether to be learning communities or ‘an ambulance service’ for wounded clergy; how to use theological as well as human science resources. The story of these groups is set within the unfolding development of the national pastoral care and practical theology movement.
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Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2005.11759014
M. Guest
Summary For many Christians the most familiar sacred space is their local church, and yet the relationships people have with this locus of identity are many and varied. However, one persistent feature relates to the communal nature of the congregation, i.e. the fact that the sacred space of the local church is shaped by a sense of collective identity and shared experience. This article addresses this observation via a consideration of literature emerging within the field of congregational studies. Drawing from existing research on churches in the UK and USA, various models for understanding the local congregation are described and set within a broad disciplinary framework. Attention is then paid to two particular volumes, both recently published, which signal the internal variety and vitality of the UK field of congregational studies.
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