Biblical Practices (DA0005W)

Content

This is an integrative unit, drawing on input from various theological disciplines, and drawing its focus upon Biblical practices of living. The unit will broadly consider four main areas. • Biblical Models of worship • Spiritual practices – prayer, discernment, hospitality • Music and the arts • Ethical church – faith in the public square

Learning outcomes

Pedagogy

Lectures, tutorials

Indicative Bibliography

• Astley, Jeff. Ordinary Theology: Looking, Listening and Learning in Theology. Edited by Leslie J. Francis and Jeff Astley, Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.
• Ballard, Paul, and John Pritchard. Practical Theology in Action: Christian Thinking in the Service of Church and Society. London: SPCK, 1996.
• Banks, Robert J., and Kimberly Powell. Faith in Leadership: How Leaders Live out Their Faith in Their Work and Why It Matters. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000.
• Hill, A Just Business: Christian Ethics for the Market Place. Carlisle: Paternoster, 1998.
• Jensen, R M. The substance of things seen: Art, Faith and the Christian Community. Grand Rapids: Michigan, Eerdmans, 2004.
• Lincoln, Andrew T, J. Gordon McConville and Lloyd K Petersen, eds. The Bible and Spirituality. Eugene: Cascade, 2013.
• Palmer, Parker J. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000.
• Rohr, Richard. Everything belongs New York: Crossroads, 1999.
• Volf, Miroslav, and Dorothy C. Bass, eds. Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.
• Woodward, James, and Stephen Pattison, eds. The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

Assessment