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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.
Through a series of essays contributed by leading experts in the
field, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology presents
an introduction to practical theology as a major area of Christian
study and practice, including an overview of its key developments,
themes, methods, and future directions. * The first comprehensive
reference work to provide a survey, description and analysis of
practical theology as an area of study * A range of leading
scholars in the field provide original contributions on the major
areas, issues, and figures in practical theology * Reviews an
extensive range of methods for studying theology in practice, along
with sub-disciplines in theological education such as pastoral care
and preaching * Covers developments in the discipline in a range of
global contexts and distinct Christian traditions * Shows how
practical theology is relevant to everyday life
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