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Future Faith: Public and Practical Theologies for the Contemporary World book cover

1st Edition

Future Faith Public and Practical Theologies for the Contemporary World

Edited By Graeme Smith, Andrew Todd Copyright 2025
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge
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Future Faith: Public and Practical Theologies for the Contemporary World explores what is needed for theology to survive and thrive in the next generation. As well as declining student numbers and pressures on university theology departments, churches are increasingly questioning the value of theological study. The volume addresses the need for innovative responses to this crisis, which... Read more

Part 1 Practical and Public Theology

1. In Praise of Conversation: Stephen Pattison on Practical and Public Theology

Elaine Graham

2. Practical Theology for the Non-Religious

Gordon Lynch

3. Public Theology as a Type of Social Science: Responding to the Issue of Theological Relevance

Graeme Smith

4. Theology and the Public Secular Sacred

Andrew Todd

5. Rethinking Relations between Art and Theology in Troubled Times

Heather Walton

6. Humour, Theology and Pastoral Care

Manon Ceridwen James

Part 2 Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care

7. Chaplaincy, Liminality and the Future of Theology

Stephen B. Roberts

8. Setting the Agenda in Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care

Sophie Gilliat-Ray

9. Praying with, Praying for and Praying on Patients: Towards a Muslim Practical Theology in Chaplaincy

Mansur Ali

10. Chaplaincy Education

Chris Swift

Part 3 Professional and Public Values

11. Professional and Public Values in Health and Social Care

Ray Samuriwo

12. Knowledge as a Professional Value

Andrew Edgar

13. Herding Cats: The Case for Attempting to Manage the Church of England

Malcolm Brown

14. On Deciding upon the Right Thing to Do: Embracing the Human Capital Case for Studying Theology

Helen Cameron

15. Values-Talk in British Universities: What Do Campus Novels Tell Us?

Huw Thomas

16. Acceptable Faces: Shame, Othering and Institutions

Sally Nash

Biography

Graeme Smith is Programme Leader for the MA in Theology, Culture and the Imagination at Sarum College, UK.

Andrew Todd is Director of the Professional Doctorate in Practical Theology at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

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