Table of Contents

About the Authors

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

1. ‘Theology by Heart’: The Living Human Document

2. ‘Speaking in Parables’: Constructive Narrative Theology

3. ‘Telling God’s Story’: Canonical Narrative Theology

4. ‘Writing the Body of Christ’: Corporate Theological Reflection

5. ‘Speaking of God in Public’: Correlation

6. ‘Theology-in-Action’: Praxis

7. ‘Theology in the Vernacular’: Contextual Theologies

Bibliography

Index of Names and Subjects

About the Author

Elaine Graham is Grosvenor Research Professor of Practical Theology at the University of Chester. Heather Walton is Professor of Theology and Creative Practice and Director of the Centre for Literature, Theology and the Arts, University of Glasgow. From 2010 to 2017, the Very Revd Dr Frances Ward was Dean of St Edmundsbury Cathedral in Suffolk. She is now a freelance theologian and priest in the Diocese of Carlisle, living in Workington, Cumbria. Katja Stuerzenhofecker is Lecturer in Gender Studies in Religion at the University of Manchester.

Reviews

"...an indispensable resource"-- "Practical Matters: A Journal of Religious Practices and Practical Theology"

"extremely helpful, very well structured and interesting", -- "Adult Education Friday Mailing"

"It achieves admirably what it set out to do, and could serve as a useful sounding-board for pastors reflecting on how their congregations "do theology" locally"-- "Church Times"