Transforming Practice: Pastoral Theology in an Age of Uncertainty
Mar 2002 · Wipf and Stock Publishers
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In an age where traditional values are facing a crisis and there is much uncertainty, what sources and norms may guide Christian action in the world? Do Christian truth-claims make any coherent sense amidst the confusing narratives of the public domain? The aim of this work is to reconstruct the values by which Christian praxis may be guided in a pluralistic and fragmented society, and to identify a model of pastoral theology in a postmodern age. The book argues that the proper focus of pastoral theology is not applied theology or the work of the ordained pastor, but the critical study of values of the purposeful practices of the faith community itself.
In an age where traditional values are facing a crisis and there is much uncertainty, what sources and norms may guide Christian action in the world? Do Christian truth-claims make any coherent sense amidst the confusing narratives of the public domain? The aim of this work is to reconstruct the ...
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Elaine Graham is the Samuel Ferguson Professor of Social and Pastoral Theology at the University of Manchester, England. She is the coeditor of Life-Cycles: Women and Pastoral Care (1993) and author of Making the Difference: Gender, Personhood and Theology (1995) and Representations of the Post/Human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture (2002).
Elaine Graham is the Samuel Ferguson Professor of Social and Pastoral Theology at the University of Manchester, England. She is the coeditor of Life-Cycles: Women and Pastoral Care (1993) and author of Making the Difference: Gender, Personhood and Theology (1995) and Representations of the Post/H...
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