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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 given the current challenges it faces. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students working in these spheres.
List of contents
Part 1 Practical and Public Theology 1. In Praise of Conversation: Stephen Pattison on Practical and Public Theology 2. Practical Theology for the Non-Religious 3. Public Theology as a Type of Social Science: Responding to the Issue of Theological Relevance 4. Theology and the Public Secular Sacred 5. Rethinking Relations between Art and Theology in Troubled Times 6. Humour, Theology and Pastoral Care
Part 2 Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care 7. Chaplaincy, Liminality and the Future of Theology 8. Setting the Agenda in Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care 9. Praying with, Praying for and Praying on Patients: Towards a Muslim Practical Theology in Chaplaincy 10. Chaplaincy Education
Part 3 Professional and Public Values 11. Professional and Public Values in Health and Social Care 12. Knowledge as a Professional Value 13. Herding Cats: The Case for Attempting to Manage the Church of England 14. On Deciding upon the Right Thing to Do: Embracing the Human Capital Case for Studying Theology 15. Values-Talk in British Universities: What Do Campus Novels Tell Us? 16. Acceptable Faces: Shame, Othering and Institutions
About the author
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.
Summary
Future Faith: Public and Practical Theologies for the Contemporary World explores what is needed for theology to survive and thrive in the next generation given the current challenges it faces. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students working in these spheres.
