Entering the New Theological Space
Blurred Encounters of Faith, Politics and Community
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 15 November 2016
- ISBN 9781138265660
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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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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.
’... there is immense practical wisdom and insight to be found... there is much that is novel and exciting here.’ Church Times ’This collection of essays sets out to be something of a manifesto. Reader and Baker, on the basis of earlier work, claim that theological reflection and practice has entered, as the title suggests, a new space where the decisions and debates are made through blurred encounters. They draw on contemporary evaluations of the dynamics of modern society. The contention is that the Church is entering into a radically new phase of mission and witness.’ Practical Theology ’What is exciting about this book is that it provides a creative philosophical basis for theological reflection and an interesting starting-point for dialogue with a number of other disciplines.’ Modern Believing '... this volume deserve[s] wide reading, and the ongoing conversations encouraged therein are to be commended. Social planners, missiologists, pastoral practitioners and those training them will all benefit from reading this book, and from taking up the challenge to engage in the interdisciplinary and multilayered interstices of cultural, political and theological realities.' Per Crucem ad Lucem Blog '... this volume deserves wide reading, and the ongoing conversations encouraged therein are to be commended. Social planners, missiologists, pastoral practitioners and those training them will all benefit from reading this book, and from taking up the challenge to engage in the interdisciplinary and multi-layered interstices of cultural, political and theological realities.' International Journal of Public Theology
Table of Contents:
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, Žižek 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;
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