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Perspectives on Ecclesiology and Ethnography

Author : Pete Ward
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 080286726X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Ecclesiology and Ethnography written by Pete Ward and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the disciplines of religious studies, systematic theology, and practical theology there exists a divide between empirical and theological analyses of the church. Each volume in the cross-disciplinary series Studies in Ecclesiology and Ethnography attempts to address this gap by exploring the methodological and substantive issues that arise from both theological and empirical studies of the church's practices and social reality. Perspectives on Ecclesiology and Ethnography, the inaugural volume in the series, proposes that if theology is to regain its relevance to the church today, theologians must utilize ethnographical tools in order to provide more accurate, disciplined research that is situated in real contexts. Using "ethnography" in its broadest sense -- encompassing any form of qualitative research -- this volume proposes that the church is both theological and social/cultural, which implies the need for a methodological shift for researchers in theology. Contributions from twelve scholar-practitioners lead the way forward. Contributors Luke Bretherton Paul S. Fiddes Nicholas M. Healy Mary McClintock Fulkerson Alister E. McGrath Richard R. Osmer Elizabeth Phillips Christian Scharen John Swinton Pete Ward Clare Watkins John Webster

Reiki Card Deck

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610593731
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Explorations in Ecclesiology and Ethnography

Author : Christian B. Scharen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802868649
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Explorations in Ecclesiology and Ethnography by : Christian B. Scharen

Download or read book Explorations in Ecclesiology and Ethnography written by Christian B. Scharen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Explorations in Ecclesiology and Ethnography Christian Scharen and several other contributors explore empirical and theological understandings of the church. Like the first volume in the Studies in Ecclesiology and Ethnography series, this second volume seeks to bridge the great divide between theological research and ethnography (qualitative research). The book's wide-ranging chapters cover such fascinating topics as geographic habits of American evangelicals, debates over difficult issues like homosexuality, and responses to social problems like drug abuse and homelessness. The contributors together model a collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach, with fruitful results that will set a new standard for ecclesiological research. Contributors: Christopher Brittain Helen Cameron Henk De Roest Paul Fiddes Matthew Guest Roger Haight Harald Hegstad Mark Mulder Paul Murray James Nieman Christian B. Scharen James K. A. Smith John Swinton Pete Ward Clare Watkins

What Really Matters

Author : Jonas Ideström
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 149824338X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book What Really Matters written by Jonas Ideström and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is about ecclesiology and ethnography and what really matters in such academic work. How does material from field studies matter in a theological conversation? How does theology, in various forms, matter in analysis and interpretation of field work material? How does method matter? The authors draw on their research experiences and engage in conversations concerning reflexivity, normativity, and representation in qualitative theological work. The role and responsibility of the researcher is addressed from various perspectives in the first part of the book. In the next section the authors discuss ways in which empirical studies are able to disrupt the implicit and explicit normativity of ecclesial traditions, and also how theological traditions and perspectives can inform the interpretation of empirical data. The final part of the book focuses on the process of creating "the stuff" that represents the ecclesial context under study. What Really Matters is written to serve students and researchers in the field of ecclesiology and ethnography, systematic and practical theology, and especially those who work empirically or ethnographically--broadly speaking. The book might be particularly helpful to those who deal with questions of methodology in these academic disciplines. This volume offers perspectives that grow out of the Scandinavian context, yet it seeks to participate in and contribute to a scholarly conversation that goes beyond this particular location.

Collaborative Practical Theology

Author : Henk de Roest
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004413235
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Collaborative Practical Theology written by Henk de Roest and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Collaborative Practical Theology, Henk de Roest documents and analyses research on Christian practices as it can be conducted by academic practical theologians in collaboration with practitioners of different kinds in Christian practices all around the world.

Introducing Practical Theology

Author : Pete Ward
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493410830
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Introducing Practical Theology written by Pete Ward and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the field of practical theology reclaims a theological vision for the life and work of the church. Pete Ward dispels the myth that practical theology is a distraction from the "real" tasks of ministry or from serious academic theological work. He argues that practical theology is part of the everyday life of the church and that there are a variety of possible approaches, helping readers evaluate the approach that is most appropriate to their ministerial context and theological tradition. This reliable, accessible resource will work well for those in training or in ministry.

John Calvin's Ecclesiology

Author : Gerard Mannion
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567508706
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book John Calvin's Ecclesiology written by Gerard Mannion and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many events were staged and a plethora of new books appeared to mark the quincentenary of the birth of John Calvin, in 2009. But one area received considerably less attention in that anniversary year - namely, Calvin's ecclesiology. This study explores the development and fundamental legacy of Calvin's perspectives on and relationship with the church. Contributions are included which explore the later development and 'denominational variations' of Calvin's ecclesiology, along with ecumenical discussions/responses to and implications of Calvin's understanding of the church. There are further chapters which focus on particular aspects such as Calvin's ecclesiological method, understanding of ministry, the 'sacramental' principle, the 'invisible church' etc. Contributions on the use of Calvin's ecclesiology by later and modern/contemporary ecclesiologists also feature. This is a volume that brings together leading and emerging theological voices from Europe, North America and Latino America and from across the different theological sub-disciplines. Significantly, the book has a decidedly ecumenical perspective, with writers from several different denominational traditions contributing.

Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics

Author : Christian Scharen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441126260
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics by : Christian Scharen

Download or read book Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics written by Christian Scharen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a primary resource in the new and growing field of Christian Ethnography. In response to a variety of critical intellectual currents (post-colonial, post-modern, and post-liberal), scholars in Christian theology and ethics are increasingly taking up the tools of ethnography as a means to ask fundamental moral questions and to make more compelling and credible moral claims. Privileging particularity, rather than the more traditional effort to achieve universal or at least generalizable norms in making claims regarding the Christian life, echoes the most fundamental insight of the Christian tradition - that God is known most fully in Jesus of Nazareth. Echoing this 'scandal of particularity' at the heart of the Christian tradition, theologians and ethicists involved in ethnographic research draw on the particular to seek out answers to core questions of their discipline: who God is and how we become the people we are, how to conceptualize moral agency in relation to God and the world, and how to flesh out the content of conceptual categories such as justice that help direct us in our daily decisions and guiding institutions.

Liquid Church

Author : Peter Ward
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725232979
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Liquid Church written by Peter Ward and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visionary book for the emergent church. The church must be like water--flexible, fluid, changeable. This book is a vision for how the church can embrace the liquid nature of culture rather than just scrambling to keep afloat while sailing over it. Ward urges us to move away from the traditional notion of church as a gathering of people meeting in one place at one time to the dynamic notion of the emergent church as a series of relationships and communications. In the Liquid Church, membership is determined by participation and involvement. Liquid Church is continually on the move, flowing in response to the Spirit and the gospel of Jesus, the imagination and creativity of its leaders, and the choices and experiences of it worshippers. In this provocative, insightful, and challenging book, Pete Ward presents his vision of a Liquid Church that addresses the needs of the isolated consumer-Christian by providing connection and community, located in common cause and similar desire for God.

Introducing Feminist Ecclesiology

Author : Natalie Watson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567110524
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Introducing Feminist Ecclesiology written by Natalie Watson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church has always been a place of profound ambivalence for women. While the majority of those who attend church are women, women experience hierarchical exclusion and invisibility within its institutional structures. Throughout most of its history, women have not participated in the church's reflections on its own nature. And yet, feminist theologians claim that women are church and always have been church. This book explores women's experiences of being church and reclaiming the church in order to rebuild it as meaningful, open, sacramental space where everybody's presence is celebrated. Natalie Watson proposes a creative and constructive dialogue with existing theological approaches to the church, from different Christian traditions as well as more recent feminist theologians, and suggests the development of criteria which hear women's experiences of being church and reclaiming church into speech. The church is the embodied reality of all women, children and men whose stories tell the story of the Triune God. This book explores the ambivalence of women's experiences of being part of the church, yet often on men's terms, and seeks to establish a constructive and creative re-reading of ecclesiology from a feminist perspective.

Church, World and the Christian Life

Author : Nicholas M. Healy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521786508
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Church, World and the Christian Life written by Nicholas M. Healy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the impact of pluralism and inclusivism upon ecclesiology.

Ecclesiology and Postmodernity

Author : Gerard Mannion
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 081468405X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Ecclesiology and Postmodernity written by Gerard Mannion and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What in the world is postmodernity? Is it the dominant reality today? If it is, what does it mean to be a church in a postmodern world? It seems that the church had a difficult time coming to terms with a modern world, an era ruled by the claims of scientific certainty. Having done so, more or less, it is now confronted by the claims of postmodernity, which seem to reverse the whole equation, to say that certainty and objectivity are chimeras. What is truth?" Pilate asked, and postmodernity 'at least as caricatured by its opponents 'responds: "There's no such thing." Gerard Mannion, in Ecclesiology and Postmodernity, addresses the situation of the church in a postmodern world. The fundamental changes in human society and culture wrought by the twentieth century require the church to consider its response in the twenty-first century. What is the church's moral Vision, how does its practice look, what is the nature of its aspiration toward holiness in our times? Mannion believes that since Vatican II, the Catholic Church has been in a kind of limbo, awaiting a Vision of its own life for the future. Rather than focusing on specific controversies, Mannion offers concrete suggestions about how the church can create a better harmony between its own self-understanding, its ecclesiological Vision, and its day-to-day life, its ecclesial practice. Gerard Mannion, PhD, educated at King's College, Cambridge University and New College, Oxford University, is Associate Professor of Ecclesiology and Ethics in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He is also the director of Church In Our Times: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Ecclesiology, co-director of the Applied Ethics Initiative at Liverpool Hope, co-chair of the AAR (American Academy of Religion) Ecclesiological Investigations Program Unit and co-ordinator of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network. Mannion is the author of Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality and co-editor of Readings in Church Authority 'Gifts and Challenges for Contemporary Catholicism, both published by Ashgate in 2003, and co-editor of the forthcoming volumes The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church andCatholic Social Justice: Theological and Practical Explorations. "

Flexible Church

Author : Helen D. Morris
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334058155
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Flexible Church written by Helen D. Morris and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flexible Church proposes an ecclesiology for innovative expressions of church that is grounded in biblical texts whilst self-consciously and intentionally developed for the contemporary Western milieu. The result is a framework serves as a guide and auditing tool for pioneering church planters.

Ethnographic Theology

Author : N. Wigg-Stevenson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137387750
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Ethnographic Theology written by N. Wigg-Stevenson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses ethnography as theological practice, yielding a theology constructed at the intersection of church, academy and everyday life. Drawing on the author's research in her Baptist church, the resulting 'ethnographic theology' produces creative theological insights, while also proposing fresh alternatives for Christian thought and action.

The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church

Author : Gerard Mannion
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134190166
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church written by Gerard Mannion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international team of distinguished scholars, this comprehensive book introduces students to the fundamental historical, systematic, moral and ecclesiological aspects of the study of the church, as well as serving as a resource for scholars engaging in ecclesiological debates on a wide variety of issues.

The House Where God Lives

Author : Gary D. Badcock
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802845827
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The House Where God Lives written by Gary D. Badcock and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a culture dominated by the individualistic values of political and social liberalism, Gary Badcock says that we seldom hear of the church as the creature of the Word of God. The church has been entrusted to us by God and belongs to the structure of the Christian faith itself. Ecclesiology is first of all theology because it is primarily about the presence of God, Badcock maintains, and is thus biblical and creedal ( one, holy, catholic, and apostolic ) something that we believe which is what undergirds its empirical, sociological, and even pastoral function. Rather than a hollow shell where humans dream moral dreams and do good deeds, the church is the house where God lives.

Liquid Ecclesiology

Author : Pete Ward
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004347356
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Liquid Ecclesiology written by Pete Ward and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Liquid Ecclesiology Pete Ward explores the theological contours of the turn to ethnography in the study of the Christian Church. There is an extended qualitative empirical case study examining the communicative practices of the contemporary evangelical Church.