Contains a general introduction to the discipline, featuring classic and pioneering essays that address the history, methods, issues, and exemplary illustrations of research, teaching, and practice
Presenting a diverse collection of landmark essays, The Wiley-Blackwell Reader in Practical Theology explores the turn-of-the-century renaissance of practical theology as an academic discipline and shows how the discipline has advanced a steady epistemological insurgency in theology throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first century. The text provides scholars, students, and ministerial professionals with easy access to original seminal sources that represent major milestones, growing edges, and useful classificatory rubrics. A handy, one-volume primer to practical theology, the book:
- Offers an excellent bird’s-eye-view of the discipline’s essential foundational contributions
- Provides significant introductory overview material helpful in guiding both new and experienced readers to practical theology
- Includes brief overview introductions before each essay to situate the reading and highlight key contributions and occasional limitations
- Features essay selections that consider race, gender, sexuality, age, and other differences as a critical subtheme
The Wiley-Blackwell Reader in Practical Theology is an indispensable resource for students, faculty, and professionals in practical theology and colleagues in related cognate disciplines in theological education and religious studies.
Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Bonnie J. Miller‐McLemore
General Introduction 1
Bonnie J. Miller‐McLemore
Part I Twenty‐First Century Practical Theology: Places, Bodies, Know‐How 19
Section I Places 21
1 Bridging Black Theology and Folk Religion (2002) 23
Dale Andrews
2 Mapping Latino/a Practical Theology (2004) 37
Allan Figueroa Deck
3 Immigrant Faith Communities as Interpreters (2008) 55
Faustino M. Cruz
4 My GPS Does Not Work in Puerto Rico (2011) 65
Loida I. Martell
5 Performative Theologies (2014) 79
Carmen Nanko‐Fernandez
Section II Bodies 91
6 Ecclesiology as if Bodies Mattered (2007) 93
Mary McClintock Fulkerson
7 A Hermeneutics of the Knees (2008) 105
Claudio Carvalhaes
8 Desiring Things (2013) 117
Heather Walton
9 The Bodies We Teach By (2014) 127
Mai‐Anh Le Tran
10 Raced Bodies (2016) 141
Phillis Isabella Sheppard
11 Knowing Through Moving (2016) 157
Emmanuel Y. Lartey
Section III Practical Know‐How 169
12 A ChicanaFeminist Epistemology (2002) 171
Nancy Pineda‐Madrid
13 Black Phronesis as Theological Resource (2008) 187
Robert L. Smith, Jr
14 An Intercultural, De‐colonial Epistemic Perspective (2012) 197
Michel Elias Andraos
15 Mis‐Education: A Recurring Theme? (2017) 209
Almeda M. Wright
16 Ventriloquism and Epistemic Violence (2017) 223
Courtney T. Goto
Part II Twentieth‐Century Foreshadowing: Reimaging Theological Knowledge 239
Section I 1950–1980s: New Claims for Knowledge in Practice 241
17 Operation‐Centered Theology (1958) 243
Seward Hiltner
18 Practical Theology within the Theological Disciplines (1972) 257
Karl Rahner
19 The Hermeneutic Circle as Epistemology (1976) 269
Juan Luis Segundo
20 Pastoral Theology as Practical Knowledge (1980) 287
Rodney J. Hunter
21 Practical Theology as Critical Praxis Correlation (1987) 297
Rebecca S. Chopp
Section II The 1990s: Redefining Practice, Reimaging Knowledge 311
22 Reconceiving Practice (1991) 313
Craig Dykstra
23 Phronesis and the Rebirth of Practical Theology (1991) 331
Don S. Browning
24 Learning from Our Sisters in the Trenches (1997) 349
Teresa L. Fry Brown
25 Wisdom and the Fear of Knowing (1997) 363
Mary Elizabeth Mullino Moore
26 Words Made Flesh (1999) 375
Elaine Graham
Index 383
About the Author :
Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture at the Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion of Vanderbilt University. A national and international leader in pastoral and practical theologies, widely recognized for work on families, women, and children, and recipient of a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology award (2000), she is author, editor, and co-editor of numerous publications, including the original edition of The Wiley Blackwell Reader in Practical Theology.
