Words Made Flesh
Writings in Pastoral and Practical Theology
1st Edition
Published on 25. January 2013
386 pages
978-0-334-04865-7 (ISBN)
Description
Words Made Flesh draws together a number of Elaine Graham's shorter writings and essays and thereby maps out the work of a pioneer theological thinker and the development of pastoral and practical theology in the last twenty years. Elaine Graham considers the theological significance of topics as diverse as nativity plays, science fiction, gender, consumerism, cyberspace and urban regeneration. They all share a concern with the way the sources and norms of the Christian tradition can enter into a creative and critical conversation with contemporary experience in order to generate the 'practical wisdom' by which the life of the Church can be directed. They reflect Elaine Graham's fundamental conviction that theology as 'talk about God-in-the-world' is always practical and public - and that it begins and ends in the complexities of the human condition: where words become flesh.
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Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- A Note on Terminology
- Part One Feminist Theology and Pastoral Care
- 1 The Pastoral Needs of Women
- 2 Pastoral Theology, Feminism and the Future
- 3 The Sexual Politics of Pastoral Care
- 4 From Space to Woman-Space
- 5 A View from a Room: Feminist Practical Theology from Academy, Kitchen or Sanctuary?
- Part Two Religion, Culture and Gender
- 6 Gender, Personhood and Theology
- 7 Words Made Flesh: Women, Embodiment and Practical Theology
- 8 From 'Terrible Silence' to 'Transforming Hope': The Impact of Feminist Theory on Practical Theology
- 9 'Only Bodies Suffer': Embodiment, Representation and the Practice of Ethics
- Part Three Theology and Practice
- 10 Pastoral Theology: 'Therapy', 'Mission' or 'Liberation'?
- 11 Pastoral Theology as Transforming Practice
- 12 'The Story' and 'Our Stories': Narrative Theology, Vernacular Religion and the Birth of Jesus
- 13 'What We Make of the World': The Turn to Culture in Theology and the Study of Religion
- Part Four Public Theology
- 14 Theology in the City: Ten Years after Faith in the City
- 15 Public Theology in an Age of 'Voter Apathy'
- 16 Power, Knowledge and Authority in Public Theology
- 17 'What Makes a Good City?' Reflections on the Commission on Urban Life and Faith
- Part Five New Technologies and Post/Human Futures
- 18 Post/Human Conditions
- 19 'Big Brother' or 'New Jerusalem'? Anti-Utopia and Utopia in a Virtual Age
- 20 Bioethics after Posthumanism: Natural Law, Communicative Ethics and the Problem of Self-Design
- 21 In Whose Image? Representations of Technology and the 'Ends' of Humanity
- Epilogue
- 22 Words of Encouragement from One Pilgrim to Another
- Bibliography
- List of Publications by Elaine L. Graham
- Sources and Acknowledgements
