Evangelicals Engaging in Practical Theology

Helen Morris is Head of Postgraduate Studies at Moorlands College, UK. Helen Cameron is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Baptist Studies, Regent’s Park College, Oxford and a Research Fellow at Wesley House, Cambridge.

Introduction

Helen Morris and Helen Cameron

Part I – Engaging with the Discipline

1 Practical Theology and Evangelicalism: Methodological Considerations

Andy Thomas

2 Practical Theology in the Mode of Prophetic Imagination

Chloe Lynch

3 The Role of Teleology in Practical Theology

Alistair McKitterick

4 A wonderful plan for my life? Pete Ward’s ‘The Gospel and Change’ in Dialogue with

Charles Taylor

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Part II – Engaging with Education

5 From the Boy in the Temple to the Man on the Road: The Maturing Role of Practical

Theology in the Life of the Church

Helen Cameron

6 Evangelicals Learning Practical Theology: Autobiographical Reflections

Andrew Rogers

7 Developing Reflective Practitioners: Evangelical Ordinands’ Engagement with

Theological Reflection

Elizabeth Hoare

Part III – Engaging with Practice

8 Educating for the Common Good: Engaging Truth in a World of Ideas

Olwyn Mark

9 Salvation’s Song

Matt Spencer

Part IV – Engagement by Students

10 Developing Critical Thinking within the Context of Small Group Bible Studies

Isaac McNish

11 Theodrama: A Contemporary Application

Sam Norman

12 Creating Space: A Reflection on Chaplaincy work in a Local Day-Hospice

Fiona Moore

13 An Elim Community Pneumatologically Engaged in Corporate Theological Reflection -

Sheryl Arthur

Part V – Theology that Impacts Church and World

14 Evangelical Practical Theology: The Past, the Present and the Possible Future

Mark J Cartledge

Conclusion - Prospects for an Evangelical Practical Theology

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