John Reader

Entering the New Theological Space (eBook, PDF)

Blurred Encounters of Faith, Politics and Community
Redaktion: Baker, Christopher R.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents theological reflections on the changing nature of church mission and Christian identity within a theology of 'blurred encounter' - a physical, social, political and spiritual space where once solid hierarchies and patterns are giving way to more fluid and in many ways unsettling exchanges. The issues raised and dynamics explored apply to all socially-produced space, thus tending to 'blur' that most fundamental of theological categories - namely urban vs. rural theology. Engaging in a sharper way with some of the helpful but inevitably broad-brush conclusions raised by recent church-based reports (Mission-shaped Church, Faithful Cities), the authors examine some of the practical and theological implications of this research for the issue of effective management and therefore church leadership generally. Speaking to practitioners in the field of practical theology as well as those engaged in theological and ministerial training, key voices encompass dimensions of power and conflict, and identify some of the present and future opportunities and challenges to church/faith-based engagement and leadership arising from blurred encounters. Contributors - practitioners and theorists - cover a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary professional contexts and academic/denominational interests. Contributors include: John Atherton, John Reader, Helen Cameron, Martyn Percy, Malcolm Brown, Karen Lord, Clare McBeath and Margaret Goodall.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317142751
• Artikelnr.: 45092819

Autorenporträt

Revd Dr John Reader has been ordained for over 30 years and has served in mainly rural parishes. He has also been Director of Pastoral Theology at a theological college as well as teaching on three non-residential training courses. Revd Dr Reader is currently Rector of the Ironstone Benefice in the Diocese of Oxford, Senior Honorary Research Fellow with the William Temple Foundation in Manchester and Senior Tutor for the Diploma in Christian Rural and Environmental Studies based at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxford. His publications include Local Theology (1994), Blurred Encounters (2005) and Reconstructing Practical Theology (2008). Dr Christopher R. Baker is Director of Research for the William Temple Foundation, University of Manchester, Part-time lecturer in Urban Theology at the University of Manchester, a reviewer for Urban Studies and City journals and a member of the Church of England's Urban Policy Consultative Group. He is a co-founder of the Manchester Centre for Public Theology and the Core Cities Theological Network.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Entering the New Space of the Blurred Encounter Between Faith
Politics and Community
Christopher Baker
John Reader; Chapter 1 Mainstreaming the Edges: Reflections on Edinburgh's Royal Mile and Fair Trade
John Atherton; Chapter 2 Brief Engagements
Processional Encounters
Ian Ball; Chapter 3 A Blurred InterFaith
InterCultural Experience: A Kidderminster Story
Owain Bell; Chapter 4 1This chapter is adapted and developed from my monograph
Faith in Suburbia: Completing the Contextual Trilogy (Contact Pastoral Monographs
15; Edinburgh
2005).
Malcolm Brown; Chapter 5 Networks - The Blurring of Institution and Networks: How Should the Church Engage?
Helen Cameron; Chapter 6 How to See the Wood for the Trees: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Dementia
Margaret Goodall; Chapter 7 Kent - The Garden Of Dilemma
David Grimwood
Jane Winter; Chapter 8 Weightless Identity in Post-Material Communities
Phillip Jones; Chapter 9 Negotiating Identity: The Christian Individual and the Secular Institution
Karen Lord; Chapter 10 Sanctuary and Liminality: Stories
Reflections and Liturgy Exploring the Blurred Encounters Between Mental Health and Illness as an Inner-City Church
Clare McBeath; Chapter 11 'Betwixt and Between': Anthropological Approaches to Blurred Encounters
Jonathan Miles-Watson; Chapter 12 Baptism as Cultural Conversation: Explorations in Implicit Theology
Martyn Percy; Chapter 13 Truth in Science and Theology: Latour
iek and the Theory of Circulating Reference
John Reader; Chapter 14 An Experience of Rural Ministry
Philip Wagstaff; Chapter 15 Mapping the New Theological Space: From Blurred Encounters to Thresholds of Transformation
Christopher Baker
John Reader;