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" All the People Gathered Together: Doxological Approach to Faith Formation/Christian Education"
(2019-12) Sargeant, Wendi
In the light of declining Church attendance in the West, and at the same time a growing interest in matters of spirituality, many Christians ask why? What has happened? These are integral questions. In true Practical Theology style, the solution is to do some theological reflection. Of course, once you start reflecting upon these questions, even more seem to arise! As we go deeper, our next line of enquiry might be: How do we get more people interested in following Jesus? How does following Jesus affect how we treat others? After two thousand years, the Christian church still struggles with these (among many other) questions: What does it (really) mean to be a Christian? How is someone formed in Christian faith?
Anaditj
(Denise Champion, 2021) Champion, Denise; Dewerse, Rosemary
One of the reasons I want to write this book is because I don’t sit easily with Western theology. It is so different to my Adnyamathanha understanding of Anaditj, the way things are. There’s a much older story that has stood the test of time in this land of the universal Christ and the birth of the universal church that is not being acknowledged. As Aboriginal peoples we hold knowledge, understanding, and wisdom that not only our own, but all peoples, need to learn from – language for God, wisdom for God’s people, and challenge for the way ahead. For the church to be complete, our voices must be heard.”
Announcing the Gospel
(2023-05) Burns, Stephen
The Amen Corner.
An architecture of defiance: Great churches as vehicles of hope
(2022) Edwards, Tom
Church buildings often serve multiple purposes including corporate worship, social service provision, education, and even leisure. The notion which ties these disparate purposes together is a desire to become a community hub. In this way churches mimic other social institutions such as schools, community centres, and some clubs. In addition, contemporary church architecture also engages elements of biophilic design. In this regard churches tend to mimic hospitals and other wellbeing spaces. What then is distinctive about church architecture? While Christianity may promote love as its highest virtue (e.g., Mat 22:36-40; 1 Cor 13:13) it is actually the virtue of hope which predominates in the architecture of effective worship spaces. Using an evolutionary lens and an awareness of psycho-biological principles the author will explore how church architects from multiple traditions have historically used a variety of elements including building materials, perspective, colour, ornamentation, and the decorative arts to enhance worshipers’ experience of hope. Ultimately, it will be asserted that designing spaces of hope is not about creating opportunities for community, or enhancing wellbeing, but about promoting an architecture of defiance.
“The Assembly Beyond ‘the Brink of Chaos’: Signs of Hope among Those Re-gathered in Christ’s Name
(2022-09-01) Cones, Bryan
Online liturgical celebrations occasioned by the COVID0-19 pandemic introduced new patterns of common prayer, notably eucharist. This article explores the effects of the "context collapse" of the digital environment on Christian prayer, signaling both signs of hope and limitations.
Black Rain: A Kaupapa Māori (A Māori approach) to addressing family violence and intergenerational trauma
(2023) Pouesi, Fay; Dewerse, Rosemary
Book Review: Performing the Sacred: Christian Representation and the Arts
(2023) Couchman, Adam
Book Review: Performing the Sacred: Christian Representation and the Arts Edited by Carla M. Bino and Corinna Ricasoli Brill, 2023, 240 pages
Chapter 8: Comedic Portrayals of Jesus in Film
(Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2023) Sargeant, Jonathan; Jenks, Greg
Whilst previous studies of depictions of Jesus of Nazareth tend towards serious interpretations, omitting comedic portayals, it is these that are more varied, providing rich texts for analysis. This chapter catalogues comedic depictions of Jesus in film and television, drawing conclusions about the contexts which determine their formative qualities.
Christ as Princess of Pop
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) Pryor, Rebekah; Handasyde, Kerrie; Winter, Sean
In Australian music history, Kylie Minogue remains the undisputed Princess of Pop. This and her disco invocation to dance remain organising principles, at least for me. Decades on from first resonating like a soundtrack to my formative teenage years, Kylie’s singing voice still hums of joy, embodied and ecstatic. With Roland Barthes’s singing voice as ‘material of the body’ and Virginia Burrus and Karmen MacKendrick’s ‘life in desire’ as support acts, this chapter proposes that the humanity Kylie conjures can be for us a pointer to the incarnational life of Christ and, as such, a reminder to look beyond absolutes in order to seek and see the Christ, who liberates beyond existing normative categories and structures of order and power. Kylie’s many growth spurts and creative transformations are found to distinguish her as a sequinned, excessive body, being and becoming herself beyond limits, including of time, an apophatic body in and of the image of God. In her consistently ecstatic way, Kylie is thus more than just ‘the gay shorthand for joy’—she is a christic image for the ages who signals something of the liberative Christ Lisa Isherwood describes: ‘the Christ who is beneath our feet, before our eyes, in our hearts, and throbbing between us’.
Christian Education and the Emerging Church: Postmodern Faith Formation
(Pickwick Publications, 2015-07-24) Sargeant, Wendi
Postmodern Christian faith formation, exploring some of the Emerging Church's answers to the question, "What is Church?" The findings examine the place of worship and liturgy as being crucially formative aspects.
Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love
(Routledge, 2021) Handasyde, Kerrie; McKinney, Cath; Pryor, Rebekah
This book explores the issues of power, authority and love with current concerns in the Christian theological exploration of feminism and feminist theology. It addresses its key themes in three parts: (1) power deals with feminist critiques, (2) authority unpacks feminist methodologies, and (3) love explores feminist ethics. Covering issues such as embodiment, intersectionality, liberation theologies, historiography, queer approaches to hermeneutics, philosophy and more, it provides a multi-layered and nuanced appreciation of this important area of theological thought and practice. This volume will be vital reading for scholars of feminist theology, queer theology, process theology, practical theology, religion and gender.
Conversations about Divine Mystery: Essays in Honor of Gail Ramshaw
(Fortress Press, 2023-08) Burns, Stephen; Kim-Cragg, HyeRan; Burns, Stephen
“Corporate Worship for People with Dementia: Rituals and Sensory Stimulation.”
(Routledge, 2023-09-12) Wrigley‐Carr, Robyn; Elizabeth MacKinlay & Ann Harrington
Curación y Sanación: Elementos Vitales de la Asistencia Sanitaria Católica
(En Route Books and Media, 2024-10-21) Torres, Eric Manuel
En este estudio, se explorará la importancia de la curación y la sanación, con énfasis en cómo ambas son vitales para la atención sanitaria católica. Este ensayo tiene como objetivo mostrar que sólo abarcando ambos componentes los profesionales de la salud pueden realmente cuidar a la persona en su totalidad. Además, los profesionales cristianos de la salud deben seguir el ejemplo de Cristo para servir en su misión de cuidar holísticamente a los enfermos. Como el relato de San Lucas de la Hemorroísa (Lc 8:42-48) no sólo proporciona una viñeta que distingue entre curar y sanar, sino también un excelente ejemplo de cómo Cristo atendió a ambos elementos, este ensayo interpretará esta historia con el fin de obtener una visión de la indispensabilidad de ambos para la atención sanitaria católica de toda la persona. Además, se utilizarán ejemplos extraídos de los cuidados paliativos, un área de la atención sanitaria en la que se puede distinguir claramente la curación y la sanación, para ilustrar estos elementos en términos prácticos.
Curing and Healing: Vital Elements of Catholic Health Care
(En Route Books and Media, 2024-06-09) Torres, Eric Manuel
In this research, the significance of curing and healing will be explored with an emphasis on how both are vital to Catholic health care. This essay aims to show that only by embracing both components can health care professionals truly care for the whole person. Moreover, Christian health care professionals ought to follow Christ’s example in order to serve in His mission of caring holistically for those that are ill. As Luke’s account of the Haemorrhoissa (Lk 8:42-48) not only provides a vignette distinguishing between curing and healing, but also an excellent example of how Christ attended to both elements, this essay will interpret this story in order to gain insight into the indispensability of both to whole person Catholic health care. Further, examples extracted from palliative care, an area of health care where curing and healing can be clearly distinguished, will be used to illustrate these elements in practical terms.
Curing and Healing: What the Gospel Story of the Haemorrhaging Woman Can Teach Nurses
(2021-07-07) Torres, Eric Manuel
“Curing” and “healing” are terms frequently used in health care, yet what is actually meant by each? This article asserts that curing pertains exclusively to the corporal while healing is multidimensional—embracing the whole person. Drawing insights from the gospel healing story of the Haemorrhoissa, better known as the bleeding woman or the woman with the issue of blood (Mt 9:20–22; Mk 5:24–34; Lk 8:42–48), this article demonstrates that imitating Christ and partaking in His ministerial mission of healing the sick, demands assisting in the healing process as it expresses authentic Christian love through the patient care provided.
Dangerous Bodies and Scandalous Touch: Reading Gospel Impurity Stories in the Time of Pandemic
(Pickwick Publications, 2024-03) Ermakov, Arseny; Khobnya, Svetlana; Brower Latz, Deirdre; Rae, Peter; Wi, MiJa; Ermakov, Arseny
Defying Strongman Politics: On Theologians and the Cultivation of Resistant Subjectivity in a Time of Global Crisis
(Springer, 2024) Ogden, Steven; Babie, Paul T. and Sarre, Rick.
We have to live with strongman politics for some time to come. With no obvious political solutions in sight, then, we have to ask fundamental questions about who we are and how we shall live. In the West, moreover, the mainstream church has become increasingly marginalized. So, there are also important questions about the political and social relevance of the church. Nevertheless, I am specifically interested in the identity and practice of theologians in the face of strongman politics. As such, theologians hold a privileged position in the academy, as well as the church. In colloquial terms, we have a platform. So, then, we are more or less public intellectuals. Subsequently, we have an ecclesial and social responsibility to resist strongman politics. Moreover, with the COVID pandemic, the climate crisis, and strongman politics, which are all related, this calls into question our identity and practice as theologians, as well as our ethical commitments, our collaborative spirit, our use of time, and our choice of projects. Nevertheless, the task of resisting strongman politics is complex. It is exacerbated by the pervasive nature of violence. What’s more, resistance itself can escalate violence. In response, I am employing concepts from Michel Foucault in order to reinterpret the theologian’s vocation. In Foucauldian terms, vocation is an expression of subject formation. In the face of strongman politics, the theologian is called to resist strongman politics, where defiance is expressed in terms of counter-conduct and critique. In that sense, Howard Caygill’s concept of resistant subjectivity encapsulates the theologian’s vocation. All this works at two levels. At the personal (or micro) level, this entails the transformation of the theologian. This is the undoing and re-formation of the subject (i.e., de-subjectivation). At the political (or macro) level, and as a result of self-transformation, the theologian engages in the work of resistance in the political space. In this chapter, the focus is primarily on the personal level, which also has wider political implications. In the end, this is more than an exercise in political theology. In the present global crisis, resistance is in fact incumbent on all theologians.
A Devoted Student’s Prayer
(En Route Books and Media, 2021-11-28) Torres, Eric Manuel; Etheredge, Francis
Dissident Women, Beguines, and the Quest for Spiritual Authority
(Routledge, 2024-11-12) Lambert, Catherine
Dissident Women, Beguines, and the Quest for Spiritual Authority focuses on the responses of a group of twenty-first-century women to the lives and writings of thirteenth-century beguine mystics, and reveals how the struggle to discover their own inner spiritual authority connects two groups of women across centuries. For contemporary women who are disenchanted with the institutional church and who seek spiritual direction, models deeply rooted within the tradition may not be the most helpful. The author explores the value of exemplars from the fringes, ushering Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete into the spotlight. The contemporary women studied developed a relationship with the beguines that transformed and influenced their own journeys. Their encounters underline the importance of re-membering the beguine mystics, the value of contemplative engagement with historical mystics, and the need for explicit validation of the richness of the edges of tradition within spiritual direction. Dissident Women, Beguines, and the Quest for Spiritual Authority will be of particular interest to scholars of mysticism and spirituality as well as practical, pastoral, and feminist theology.

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