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Practical Theology Beyond the Empirical Turn offers a sustained, critical interrogation of the turn towards social research and methodologies in Practical Theology which has transformed the discipline over the past forty years. It places the discipline’s current research practices within the context of wider theoretical and methodological developments and the climate disaster. The work maintains that current circumstances require a radical reassessment of the goals and processes of practical theological research and that artistic and creative methods must be part of this transformation. Heather Walton embodies her understanding of the vocation of the discipline in reflective and creative modes of expression. This work is essential reading for all those researching, writing or teaching Practical Theology today. FRONT COVER IMAGE CREDIT: Lou Davis, Grace (2016)

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements vii Prologue: Beginning at the End of the World ix Part One: The Changed Climate of Practical Theological Research 1 1 Research, Relationality and Relationships: New Ontologies in Critical Context 3 2 Knowing, Knowing What We Don’t Know and Being Mixed Up: Empiricism, Reflexivity and Representation 18 3 Borrowing, Gifting and Growing Together: Relations between Theology and Social Research Practices 37 Part Two: Practical Theology as Creative Work 67 4 The Poetics and Politics of Practical Theology 69 5 Reimagining Research as (Creative) Responsiveness 95 6 Theology as Art in Our Troubles 121 Part Three: Makings 147 7 Making One: A Theopoetics of Practice 149 8 Making Two: Heloise and Me, or, On Being a (Practical) Theologian 168 9 Making Three: Writings in the Disaster 183 Epilogue: Not a Conclusion but a Connection 190 Suggested Reading in Creative Research Methods 195 Bibliography 197

About the Author :
Heather Walton is Professor of Theology and Creative Practice at the University of Glasgow. A life writer and theologian, her other books include Writing Methods in Theological Reflection, Not Eden: Spiritual Life Writing for This World and Theological Reflection Methods 2nd Edition (with Elaine Graham and Francis Ward).

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With delicious wit and gorgeous prose Practical Theology Beyond the Empirical Turn identifies the creative possibilities empirical theological work has long incubated to offer up a whole new range of epistemological and methodological resources for the field. This is a book I’ve longed to read my entire career. Providing a compelling rationale for arts-based and creative approaches to research, Walton’s project is a path-finding contribution, written with wit, courage, and artistry. PhD students and scholars still working on their craft, get ready to be challenged and inspired to address our troubling times. This is an amazing book! It’s a much-needed redirection for a discipline that scholar and craftswoman Heather Walton has continually advanced through her creative intellect and fulsome being-in-the world. And the book is extremely timely, arising within a tumultuous era of global history on an increasingly fragile earth. What are practical theologians to do? Walton paves a brave path forward for us to follow.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780334058991
  • Publisher: SCM Press
  • Publisher Imprint: SCM Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0334058996
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jul 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y


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