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Studying God

Doing Theology

Studying God

Doing Theology

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Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334044147
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 30/11/2014
Width: 15.3 cm
Height: 23.4 cm

Studying God: Doing Theology provides a general introductory text for theological study. It begins by focusing on the reader's own ways of experiencing and talking about God, before exploring the variety of theological voices associated with the Church and the academy, and the ways in which the texts and teachings of the Christian faith interact with our own theology. Topics include:

*you and your theology

*doing theology and studying theology

*experience, belief, faith and practice

*Bible and tradition

*theological subjects, skills and methods

*classic and contemporary models of theology

*language about God

*theology and the future. 

1. Beginning Where We Are? You and Your Theology 2. The Variety of Theology: Its Form, Audience and Source 3. Doing Theology and Studying Theology 4. Locating Theology at the Centre: Experience, Belief, Faith and Practice 5. Theology's Main Sources: Bible and Tradition 6. Theological Subjects, Skills and Methods 7. Human Language and the Mystery of God 8. Modelling Theology: Classic and Contemporary Examples 9. Where to Next? Theology and the Future

Jeff Astley

Jeff Astley is Honorary Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion and Professorial Fellow of St Chad's College, Durham University, He has worked in parish ministry, university chaplaincy and higher education, and is the author of several books, including Christ of the Everyday and the SCM Studyguide to Christian Doctrine.

"I am very pleased to welcome and to affirm the new Learning Church series. It provides precisely the kind of material that is needed to resource the Exploring Faith programme in my Diocese." -- The Rt Revd Dr Geoff Peddle, Bishop of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador