Exploring Ordinary Theology : Everyday Christian Believing and the Church

Ordinary Theology Characterizes The Reflective God-talk Of The Great Majority Of Churchgoers, And Others Who Remain Largely Untouched By The Assumptions, Concepts And Arguments That Academic Theology Takes For Granted. Jeff Astley Coined The Phrase In His Innovative Study, Ordinary Theology: Looking, Listening And Learning In Theology, Arguing That 'speaking Statistically Ordinary Theology Is The Theology Of God's Church'.a Number Of Scholars Have Responded To This And Related Conceptualizations, Exploring Their Theological Implications. Other Researchers Have Adopted The Perspective In Examining A Range Of Church Practices And Contexts Of Christian Discipleship, Using The Tools Of Empirical Study. Ordinary Theology Research Has Proved To Be Key In Uncovering People's Everyday Lay Theology Or Ordinary Dogmatics. Exploring Ordinary Theology Presents Fresh Contributions From A Wide Range Of Authors, Who Address The Theological, Empirical And Practical Dimensions Of This Central Feature Of Ordinary Christian Existence And The Life Of The Church. -- Publisher. The Analysis, Investigation And Application Of Ordinary Theology / Jeff Astley -- Ordinary Theology, Theological Method And Constructive Ecclesiology / Nicholas M. Healy -- Ordinary Theology As 'mother Tongue' / Anthony Lees-smith -- Deconversion And Ordinary Theology : A Catholic Study / Tom Beaudoin And J. Patrick Hornbeck Ii -- Ordinary Theology And The Learning Conversation With Academic Theology / Jeff Astley -- Power In The Local Church : Locating The Implicit / Martyn Percy -- Ordinary Theologians As Signal Processors Of The Spirit / Michael Armstrong -- Jesus As Exemplar / Ann Christie -- Ordinary Readers And Reader Perspectives On Sacred Texts : Drawing On Empirical Theology And Jungian Psychology / Leslie J. Francis -- Extraordinary Eschatology : Insights From Ordinary Theologians / Michael Armstrong -- Ordinary Theology And The British Assemblies Of God Doctrinal Tradition : A Qualitative Study / Mark J. Cartledge -- Congregational Hermeneutics : Towards Virtuous Apprenticeship / Andrew Rogers -- The Bible And Ordinary Readers / Andrew Village -- How Far Is It To Bethlehem? : Exploring The Ordinary Theology Of Occasional Churchgoers / David Walker -- Ordinary Prayer And The Activity Of God : Reading A Cathedral Prayer Board / Tania Ap Siôn -- A Tune Beyond Us, Yet Ourselves : Ordinary Worship And Ordinary Theology / Bridget Nichols -- A Study In Ordinary Theological Ethics : Thinking About Eating / Matthew Barton And Rachel Muers -- Ordinary Discipleship / Roger L. Walton -- Sharing Friendship : God's Love In Ordinary Church Life / John B. Thomson -- Ordinary Learning / Helen Savage -- Ordinary Theology As Process : A Phenomenographic Approach / Grant Barclay. Edited By Jeff Astley And Leslie J. Francis. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.