The Pastoral Cycle - Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway.
This is a book that both inspires and teaches us how to do practical theology; it will be of immense value in theological education in a wide variety of contexts, particularly for its patient attention to the processes and forms of creative writing, with their potential for critical and reflexive practice. But I hope it has wider currency amongst all theologians who care about the quality of.
Theological Reflection: Sources will become an invaluable resource for all who are interested in the practice of public theological reflection in the complex societies that characterize the twenty-first century.This text can provide an important tool for those committed to making sense of faith in the public realm. The reader can use this book, build on it and participate in the task of.
Guidelines for Writing the Comprehensive Theological Reflection Paper. Toward the end of their program, candidates for the M.Div. and M.A. in Pastoral Ministry degrees are required to submit a Comprehensive Theological Reflection Paper (hereafter CTRP). The paper is to be at least 40 pages long. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate that the student is able to respond to the pastoral.
Grace and Law Theological Reflection This paper is my attempt to articulate the relationship between God’s grace and God’s law as it applies to Christian ethics in four areas. Jesus’ relationship to the law and the Christian believer’s relationship to the law. Jesus himself told us his relationship to the law. In Matthew 5:17 he stated, “Don 't even begin to think that I have come to.
Mature theological reflection will look for enlightenment from political and philosophical thought and from the insights into human behaviour that are available from the social sciences. The Method The purpose of theological reflection is to arrive at an appropriate response to a specific situation. To do this the Whiteheads propose a three-stage method of theological reflection. Attending.
Reflection is: a form of personal response to experiences, situations, events or new information. a 'processing' phase where thinking and learning take place. There is neither a right nor a wrong way of reflective thinking, there are just questions to explore. Figure 1 shows that the reflective thinking process starts with you. Before you can begin to assess the words and ideas of others, you.
Walton, H. (2014) Writing Methods in Theological Reflection. SCM Press: London. ISBN 9780334051855 Full text not currently available from Enlighten. Publisher's URL.