Jeff Astley

Ordinary Theology

Looking, Listening and Learning in Theology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'Ordinary theology' is Jeff Astley's phrase for the theology and theologising of Christians who have received little or no theological education of a scholarly, academic or systematic kind. Astley argues that an in-depth study of ordinary theology, which should involve both empirical research and theological reflection, can help recover theology as a fundamental dimension of every Christian's vocation. Ordinary Theology analyses the problems and possibilities of research and reflection in this area. This book explores the philosophical, theological and educational dimensions of the concept of ordinary theology, its signficance for the work of the theologian as well as for those engaged in the ministry of the church, and the criticisms that it faces. 'Ordinary theology' Astley writes, 'is the church's front line. Statistically speaking, it is the theology of God's church.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 305g
• ISBN-13: 9780754605843
• ISBN-10: 0754605841
• Artikelnr.: 21522638

Autorenporträt

Jeff Astley

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
The learning context of theology: The centrality of practical theology
Learning as the key term
The means of Christian learning
Implications for theology
Learning religion: The centrality of the learner
Changing one's religion
The modes of religious learning
Personal religious learning
Spiritual, faithful and salvific learning
Portraying ordinary theology: Taking ordinary theology seriously
Ordinariness analysed
Theology and the ordinary
Defining theology
Theologia and habitus
Defining ordinary theology
Characterising ordinary theology
From the ordinary to the academic
Folk, common and implicit religion
Studying ordinary theology: Empirical research
Conceptual reflection
Empirical theological research
Description and prescription
Description and interpretation
Phenomenological and hermeneutical research
Wittgensteinian methodology
Debating ordinary theology: Censuring ordinary theology
Justifying the study of ordinary theology pragmatically
Justifying the study of ordinary theology theologically
Afterword
Indexes.