1st Edition
Evangelicals Engaging in Practical Theology Theology that Impacts Church and World
This book aims to introduce a distinctively evangelical voice to the discipline of practical theology. Evangelicals have sometimes seen practical theology as primarily a ‘liberal’ project. This collection, however, actively engages with practical theology from an evangelical perspective, both through discussion of the substantive issues and by providing examples of practical theology done by evangelicals in the classroom, the church, and beyond. This volume brings together established and emerging voices to debate the growing role which practical theology is playing in evangelical and Pentecostal circles. Chapters begin by addressing methodological concerns, before moving into areas of practice. Additionally, there are four short papers from students who make use of practical theology to reflect upon their own practice. Issues of authority and normativity are tackled head on in a way that will inform the debate both within and beyond evangelicalism. This book will, therefore, be of keen interest to scholars of practical, evangelical, and Pentecostal theology.
Introduction
Helen Morris and Helen Cameron
Part I – Engaging with the Discipline
1 Practical Theology and Evangelicalism: Methodological Considerations
Andy Thomas
2 Practical Theology in the Mode of Prophetic Imagination
Chloe Lynch
3 The Role of Teleology in Practical Theology
Alistair McKitterick
4 A wonderful plan for my life? Pete Ward’s ‘The Gospel and Change’ in Dialogue with
Charles Taylor
Helen Morris
Part II – Engaging with Education
5 From the Boy in the Temple to the Man on the Road: The Maturing Role of Practical
Theology in the Life of the Church
Helen Cameron
6 Evangelicals Learning Practical Theology: Autobiographical Reflections
Andrew Rogers
7 Developing Reflective Practitioners: Evangelical Ordinands’ Engagement with
Theological Reflection
Elizabeth Hoare
Part III – Engaging with Practice
8 Educating for the Common Good: Engaging Truth in a World of Ideas
Olwyn Mark
9 Salvation’s Song
Matt Spencer
Part IV – Engagement by Students
10 Developing Critical Thinking within the Context of Small Group Bible Studies
Isaac McNish
11 Theodrama: A Contemporary Application
Sam Norman
12 Creating Space: A Reflection on Chaplaincy work in a Local Day-Hospice
Fiona Moore
13 An Elim Community Pneumatologically Engaged in Corporate Theological Reflection -
Sheryl Arthur
Part V – Theology that Impacts Church and World
14 Evangelical Practical Theology: The Past, the Present and the Possible Future
Mark J Cartledge
Conclusion - Prospects for an Evangelical Practical Theology
Helen Morris and Helen Cameron
Biography
Helen Morris is Head of Postgraduate Studies at Moorlands College, UK.
Helen Cameron is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Baptist Studies, Regent’s Park College, Oxford and a Research Fellow at Wesley House, Cambridge.
