The Challenge of Practical Theology

Selected Essays

Stephen Pattison

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2007, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 304pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-453-7, BIC 2: HRLB HRLK

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Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Ethics and Value in Practice. Introduction. 1. Questioning Values. 2. The Trouble with Values. 3. Are Professional Codes Ethical? 4. The Value of Ethics. Part II: On Organisation and Management. Introduction. 5. Recognizing Leaders' Hidden Beliefs. 6. Faithful Management or Managing the Faithful? 7. Some Objections to Aims and Objectives. 8. Organisational Spirituality: An Exploration. Part III: On Christian Practice and Opportunities: A Critique. Introduction. 9. Healing: A Flight from Definition. 10. Dumbing down the Spirit. 11. To the Churches with Love from the Lighthouse. 12. Frustrated with Sex: Some Observations on Christian Approaches to the Ethics of Sex and Sexuality. 13. `Suffer Little Children': The Challenge of Child Abuse and Neglect to Theology. 14. Mend the Gap: Christianity and the Emotions. Part IV: On Theology and the Christian Tradition. Introduction. 15. Can we Speak of God in the Secular Academy?, Or, Need Theology be so Useless? 16. Public Theology: A Polemical Epilogue. 17. The Shadow Side of Jesus. Part V: On Pastoral and Practical Theology. Introduction. 18. Pastoral Studies: Dust Bin or Discipline? 19. The Use of the Behavioural Sciences in Pastoral Studies. 20. Practical Theology: Art or Science? Stephen Pattison - Principal Publications 1980-2005. Subject index. Author index.

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• Stephen Pattison

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• Spirituality

Keywords

• practical theology,
• spirituality,
• theology

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