‘Stillbirth and Suffering in Ireland: A Theological Reflection from Healthcare Chaplaincy’, Practical Theology 10.2 (2017)

2021 ◽  
pp. 202-202
Author(s):  
Daniel Nuzum ◽  
Sarah Meaney ◽  
Keelin O’Donoghue ◽  
Michael Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Practical Theology ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Healthcare Chaplaincy

scholarly journals Film as medium for meaning making: A practical theological reflection

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita L. Cloete
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
The Self ◽  
Practical Theological

The reflection on film will be situated within the framework of popular culture and livedreligion as recognised themes within the discipline of practical theology. It is argued that theperspective of viewers is of importance within the process of meaning-making. By focusing onthe experience and meaning-making through the act of film-watching the emphasis is not somuch on the message that the producer wishes to convey but rather on the experience that iscreated within the viewer. Experience is not viewed as only emotional, but rather that, at least,both the cognitive and emotional are key in the act of watching a film. It is therefore arguedthat this experience that is seldom reflected on by viewers could serve as a fruitful platform formeaning-making by the viewer. In a context where there seems to be a decline in institutionalisedforms of religion, it is important to investigate emerging forms of religion. Furthermore, theturn to the self also makes people’s experiences and practices in everyday life valuableresources for theological reflection. This reflection could provide a theoretical framework forespecially empirical research on how film as specific form of media serves as a religiousresource and plays a role in the construction of meaning and religious identity.

Faith, Praxis, and Practical Theology: At the Interface of Sociology and Theology

Horizons ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Lawler
Keyword(s):  
Practical Theology ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

ABSTRACTThis essay is an exercise in practical theology, the theological reflection arising out of and in response to the church's actual situation. Practical theology insists that it is not enough to analyze the church's actual situation with deductive, ahistorical theological principles, but that it is necessary, first, to uncover and, then, reflect critically on the actual situation to test it for the presence of the Spirit, relevance, and significance in light of the gospel. Practical theology grows out of the relationship between theoria and praxis which, for the church, is the relationship between faith and praxis. The essay argues that to recognize scientifically the church's actual situation and to perform the required theological reflection practical theology requires sociology.The essay explores, therefore, the relationship between practical theology and the data of sociological research. It also examines the theological realities, sensus fidei and reception, and explores their relationship to that data. The exploration is concretized theologically by a consideration of the sociological data and theology about two Catholic moral doctrines, divorce and remarriage without prior annulment and artificial contraception. A theological reflection on the actual situation of both doctrines and a sociological consideration of the data suggest the conclusion that a dramatic development and re-reception of both doctrines, in line with previous dramatic developments of doctrine in the church, is under way.

Stillbirth and Suffering in Ireland: A Theological Reflection from Healthcare Chaplaincy

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Nuzum ◽  
Sarah Meaney ◽  
Keelin O'Donoghue ◽  
Michael Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Healthcare Chaplaincy

scholarly journals Pastoral caregiving as life science: Towards an existential hermeneutics of life within the interplay between pastoral healing (cura vitae) and spiritual wholeness

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniël J. Louw
Keyword(s):  
Practical Theology ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Spiritual Healing ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Existential Analysis ◽  
Spiritual Wholeness ◽  
The Media ◽  
Practical Theological ◽  
Pastoral Caregiving

Currently, the media is creating an illusion of youthful wellbeing: ‘healthism’. But is life merely about physical health? What is meant by spiritual healing in pastoral caregiving? By means of the ontology of life and an existential analysis of the structure of being, a grid is developed in order to make a pastoral diagnosis regarding the interplay between different aspects and dimensions of the category life. It is argued that, seeing the bigger picture in a pastoral hermeneutics of life, contributes to spiritual healing (cura vitae). The basic assumption is that cura animarum should be designed in theory formation in pastoral caregiving as follows: faith care as life care. It is, in this respect, that the Christian spiritual categories of anastrephō, peripateō and hodos can be used in practical theological reflection to describe praxis in practical theology as fides quaerens vivendi [faith seeking lifestyles]. A spirituality of lifestyles points to habitus [human soulfulness] as new modes of ‘walking with God’ and ‘living with God’ (pneumatological praxis of God). Fides quaerens viviendi should be exemplified by a taxonomy of virtues.

Methodism and the Church

2018 ◽  
pp. 316-334
Author(s):  
David M. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Holiness Movement ◽  
Ordained Ministry ◽  
Means Of Grace ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Church

This chapter examines the nature of the church in Methodist experience and practice from the origins of Methodism as a network of religious societies in the eighteenth century to its present day self-understanding as a global communion of churches. The article discusses: (1) the Wesleyan foundations of Methodist ecclesiology; (2) methods, sources, and norms in Methodist theological reflection on the church; (3) how Methodists interpret the credal marks of the church; (4) the ordained ministry; and (5) the means of grace and authority. A concluding section considers the future agenda for ecclesiology as a branch of practical theology in Methodism. Confident in its providential mission to spread scriptural holiness and ecumenical in outlook, Methodism remains in essence a holiness movement in search of its true ecclesial location in the Holy Catholic Church.

scholarly journals Poetically Africa dwells: A dialogue between Heidegger�s understanding of language as the house of Being and African Being-with (ubuntu) as a possible paradigm for postfoundational practical theology in Africa

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Middle Europe ◽  
African Context

The search for new paradigms and perspectives for practical theology in South Africa begins with the context, South Africa. What perspectives are given and what perspectives respond to the call of this context when this African context is brought into dialogue with the thoughts of a thinker who has to a large extent determined the paradigm of postmodern Western thought? This article was inspired by the hope that such a dialogue will reveal unique outcomes that could offer perspectives and possible paradigms for doing postfoundational practical theology in South Africa. I specifically brought into dialogue Heidegger�s understanding of language and the poetics of Being, with ubuntu, interpreted as Being-with [mit-Sein] and how African ubuntu can be interpreted as being of language � poetically Africa dwells-with-others. This dialogue in Africa with Africa, on and of the house of Being, can only but �gift� practical theology with new perspectives and paradigms, because practical theology can be understood as a critical theological reflection on the word event (language event) in the various sub-disciplines of practical theology (homiletics, pastorate, liturgics and diaconical ministry), responding to the Word event of Scripture as the written said in answer to the Divine saying.I have reflected on this dialogue, not as an outsider objectifying Africa or postmodernism, but as one born in Africa (as-one-in-Africa) whose mother tongue (house of Being) is that of middle Europe. Theology has always been most creative at the intersection or intercessions of paradigms of thought, that is, Jerusalem�Athens, Jerusalem�Athens�Alexandria, Jerusalem�Athens�Alexandria�Rome, et cetera. The time has come for southern Africa to be part of this intersection and these intercessions, to offer perspectives and paradigms for practical theology.

scholarly journals Models of disability: A brief overview

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marno Retief ◽  
Rantoa Letšosa
Keyword(s):  
Practical Theology ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Models Of Disability ◽  
Typological Approach ◽  
Disability Theology ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Practical Theological ◽  
People’S Perceptions

Critical reflection on the importance of shaping disability-friendly – or disability-inclusive – congregations has enjoyed increasing attention in the field of practical theology in recent years. Moreover, the development of disability theology is a testament to the fact that practical theologians and the wider church community have taken serious notice of the realities and experiences of people with disabilities in our time. Nevertheless, even before the task of engaging in theological reflection from a disability perspective commences, it is necessary that theologians acquaint themselves with the various models of disability that shape people’s perceptions and ideas about people with disabilities. Guided by the principles of the interpretive task of practical theological investigation and cognizant of the importance of models of disability in shaping perceptions regarding people with disabilities, this article seeks to provide a brief overview of nine of the most dominant models of disability that are prevalent in our time. We shall utilise the typological approach to theoretical analysis in order to outline the basic characteristics of the various models.

Bioethics and Practical Theology: The Example of Reproductive Medicine

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Messer
Keyword(s):  
Practical Theology ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Reproductive Medicine ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
In Vitro Fertilisation

AbstractThis report begins by introducing bioethics, outlining the history and present shape of the field, and making some brief remarks about its methods and approaches. The interactions of theology and religion with bioethics are briefly surveyed, and potential points of contact with practical theology are identified. Next, the ethics of reproductive medicine, in particular in vitro fertilisation (IVF), is used as a specific example of theological reflection on bioethics. The final section identifies some questions arising from this example, which may contribute to a research agenda in bioethics and practical theology.

A Theory of Religious Praxis in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-128
Author(s):  
Roy Lazar A
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Theological Method ◽  
Sitz Im Leben ◽  
International Report ◽  
Religious Praxis

AbstractThe first part of this International Report (IJPT 21.1) dealt with the theory of praxis in general, describing different approaches in pastoral care and various methods in theological reflection. It concluded with the question whether a ‘theological method’ exists that could be called specifically ‘Indian.’ Part II proceeds from this clue to explore the growth, Sitz im Leben, content and unique characteristics of Practical Theology in India.

scholarly journals Practical theology: A current international perspective

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard R. Osmer
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Relative Weight ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
The Common ◽  
Practical Theological ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Current

Drawing on Thomas Kuhn’s concept of paradigms, this article explored two levels at which paradigms influence contemporary practical theology. The first level is reflective practice, where pastors and academics carry out the descriptive-empirical, interpretive, normative and pragmatic tasks of practical theological reflection on particular contexts. The second level is metatheoretical, where practical theologians make decisions about how they view the theory– praxis relationship, interdisciplinary work, the relative weight of Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience and the theological rationale that justifies their approach. The article concluded by raising two challenges to the current paradigms of practical theology: the relationship between Christian particularity and the common good, and the wound of reason.

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