Exploring Ordinary Theology

Everyday Christian Believing and the Church
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4094-4257-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology

'Ordinary theology' characterizes the reflective God-talk of the great majority of churchgoers, and others who remain largely untouched by the assumptions, concepts and arguments that academic theology takes for granted. Jeff Astley coined the phrase in his innovative study, Ordinary Theology: Looking, Listening and Learning in Theology, arguing that 'speaking statistically ordinary theology is the theology of God's Church'. A number of scholars have responded to this and related conceptualizations, exploring their theological implications. Other researchers have adopted the perspective in examining a range of Church practices and contexts of Christian discipleship, using the tools of empirical study. Ordinary theology research has proved to be key in uncovering people's everyday lay theology or ordinary dogmatics. Exploring Ordinary Theology presents fresh contributions from a wide range of authors, who address the theological, empirical and practical dimensions of this central feature of ordinary Christian existence and the life of the Church.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Francis, Leslie J.

Astley, Jeff

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 The Analysis, Investigation and Application of Ordinary Theology, Jeff Astley; Part I Reflecting on Ordinary Theology: Analytical and Theological Perspectives; Chapter 2 Ordinary Theology, Theological Method and Constructive Ecclesiology, Nicholas M. Healy; Chapter 3 Ordinary Theology as ‘Mother Tongue’, Anthony Lees-Smith; Chapter 4 Deconversion and Ordinary Theology: A Catholic Study, Tom Beaudoin, J. Patrick HornbeckII; Chapter 5 Ordinary Theology and the Learning Conversation with Academic Theology, Jeff Astley; Chapter 6 Power in the Local Church: Locating the Implicit, Martyn Percy; Chapter 7 Ordinary Theologians as Signal Processors of the Spirit, Michael Armstrong; Part II Researching and Situating Ordinary Theology: Empirical and Contextual Perspectives; Chapter 8 Jesus as Exemplar, Ann Christie; Chapter 9 Ordinary Readers and Reader Perspectives on Sacred Texts: Drawing on Empirical Theology and Jungian Psychology, Leslie J. Francis; Chapter 10 Extraordinary Eschatology: Insights from Ordinary Theologians, Michael Armstrong; Chapter 11 Ordinary Theology and the British Assemblies of God Doctrinal Tradition: A Qualitative Study, Mark J. Cartledge; Chapter 12 Congregational Hermeneutics: Towards Virtuous Apprenticeship, Andrew Rogers; Chapter 13 The Bible and Ordinary Readers, Andrew Village; Chapter 14 How Far is it to Bethlehem? Exploring the Ordinary Theology of Occasional Churchgoers, David Walker; Chapter 15 Ordinary Prayer and the Activity of God: Reading a Cathedral Prayer Board, Tania ap Siôn; Chapter 16 A Tune Beyond Us, Yet Ourselves: Ordinary Worship and Ordinary Theology, Bridget Nichols; Chapter 17 A Study in Ordinary Theological Ethics: Thinking about Eating, Matthew Barton, Rachel Muers; Chapter 18 Ordinary Discipleship, Roger L. Walton; Chapter 19 Sharing Friendship: God’s Love in Ordinary Church Life, John B. Thomson; Chapter 20 Ordinary Learning, Helen Savage; Chapter 21 Ordinary Theology as Process: A Phenomenographic Approach, Grant Barclay;

Über Autor(innen)

Jeff Astley was appointed as Founding Director of the North of England Institute for Christian Education in 1981. He is Honorary Professorial Fellow in Practical Theology and Christian Education at Durham University, and visiting professor at Glyndwr University and York St John University. He is the author or editor of over thirty books on Christian education, practical theology or religious faith. Recent books include: Ordinary Theology (Ashgate, 2002), Exploring God-Talk (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2004), Christ of the Everyday (SPCK, 2007), and the SCM Studyguide to Christian Doctrine (SCM, 2010). Leslie J. Francis is Professor of Religions and Education within the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, University of Warwick, and Canon Theologian at Bangor Cathedral, Wales. He is the author or editor of over fifty books, and has authored or co-authored over five hundred papers, mainly within empirical and practical theology, the psychology of religion and empirical psychology. Recent books include Faith and Psychology (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2005), Urban Hope and Spiritual Health (Epworth, 2005), British Methodism (Epworth, 2006), Gone for Good (Epworth, 2007), and Preaching with all our Soul (Continuum, 2008). Jeff Astley and Leslie Francis have collaborated in editing a number of collections of original essays in Practical Theology and Christian Education, most recently The Idea of a Christian University (Paternoster, 2004), Religion, Education and Adolescence (University of Wales Press, 2005), Peace or Violence (University of Wales Press, 2007), Empirical Theology in Texts and Tables (Brill, 2009), and Teaching Religion, Teaching Truth (forthcoming).