Böcker av Stephen Burns

Feminist practical theology has emerged in the gap between wider feminist and wider practical theology. It celebrates distinctive concerns, arguments, emphases, and questions - unafraid to re-form practical theology in shape and substance, and to guide feminist theology towards the silences and stories of human lives that some professional theologies (including those shaped by feminist commitments) sometimes overlooks. Feminist practical theology is bold in exploration of doctrinal themes in poetic and prayerful modes, characteristically collaborative and in search of alliances with other advocacy perspectives.In the UK, such commitments have been exemplified by Nicola Slee, whom this volume honours. Chapters invite readers into wide ranging conversations that flow from young women's experiences at university, poetic practice as theology, queer priesthood, theologies of critical masculinities, women presiding in worship, Black and decolonial theologies adjacent to feminist convictions, confrontations with sexual violence, rest and rewilding, and a post-menopausal Mary. Contributors are: Al Barrett, Gavin D'Costa, Deborah Kahn-Harris, Michael N. Jagessar, Sharon Jagger, Rachel Mann, Jenny Morgans, Eleanor Nesbitt, Karen O'Donnell, Mark Pryce, Anthony G. Reddie, Ruth Shelton, Anne Phillips and Alison Wooley.

"Here, in a fitting recognition of a life of scholarship, is an esteemed collection of liturgical and homiletic scholars writing to honor and engage with Gail Ramshaw's work and extend it to new questions, contexts and concerns. The volume is organized around key themes of her work: lectionary patterns, prayer forms, and theological horizons"--

This assemblage of feminist theologies is written from different cultures, geographies and discourses and brought together around themes as specific and wide-ranging as immigration detention, hate crime, discrimination, rites of marriage and partnership, and artistic and religious imagination.

Postcolonialism has greatly influenced biblical and theological criticism but has not yet entered the realm of church worship and practice. 'Christian Worship' brings the insights of postcolonial thinking to the rituals of religious life.

Immensely powerful and ancient beyond measure, dragons have captured the imagination of story tellers from all corners of the globe for countless centuries. Creatures of legend, from the wise and benevolent, through to corrupt and tyrannical, the mighty wing beats of these most awe-inspiring beasts still continue to reign majestically over our own dreams to this very day. With a flash of teeth, and breath of flame, the Great Wyrms are truly kings of the heavens and the rightful rulers of our wildest fantasies. In this collection fourteen original stories from some of Australia's most exciting authors, join a 19th century classic from pioneering fantasist E. Nesbit, as they pay homage the greatest lords of both fire and sky.

What does it mean to be engaged in Christian ministry in a shifting spiritual and religious landscape? Stephen Burns invites readers to think anew about the distinctiveness of public practices of pastoral presence. Rather than narrowly defining pastoral care and pastoral theology (pastoral counseling, preaching, youth groups, visits to elders, etc.) and theological academic categories (history, pastoral theology, liturgy, ethics and contemporary sociology), he argues for a new imagination and practice of pastoral presence ¿ a presence that is representative, public, integrated, and expansive. Study guide included.

The SCM Studyguide: Liturgy, 2nd Edition is an introduction to liturgy that considers the basic 'building blocks' needed to grasp the subject area. This new edition takes account of new liturgy contexts and revisions in the liturgy since the publication of the original edition.