General
SCM Press
Hub: SCM Press, Section: More VI October 2021
Main course pageMore VI October 2021
-
More VI October 2021
-
This book breaks new ground in exploring how a model of conversation can be used to lay a foundation for learning which provides a new architecture for both academic curriculum and personal formation.
Ethics
-
A Preacher's Tale aims to provide not just a theoretical introduction, but a resource that uses sermons in the narrative style to reflect on how to prepare and construct them and how to deliver them effectively in the context of worship. By dramatic story-telling, it invites listeners into enter the text imaginatively and enables them to experience sermons as transformative events.
Preaching, Exposition, Sermon
-
Oceanographer Meric Srokosz and the biblical scholar Rebecca Watson offer environmental insights on the sea. They also connect the ocean with other key issues of broader concern-spirituality, economics, chaos, and our place in the world. Each chapter concludes with ideas for discussion and reflection, and for suggested actions in the light of the issues raised.
Spirituality, Identity, Ecological
-
Stephen Wright offers a constructive introduction to preaching as an existing and varied practice throughout the church on which it is important to continue to reflect theologically, so that it is executed with developing spirituality, understanding and skill. It discusses the practice of preaching - from its basic theological rationale right through to the dynamics of live communication and its aftermath.
Preaching, Theological Reflection, Spirituality
-
Victoria Slater explores the significance of chaplaincy for the mission and ministry of the contemporary Church, discussing the reasons for the recent growth in new chaplaincy roles in the contemporary cultural and church context and providing a theological rationale for chaplaincy along with practical suggestions for the development and support of chaplaincy practice.
Chaplaincy, Mission, Ministry
-
Offering a theological and biblical account of depression, Tasia Scrutton considers how depression has been understood and interpreted by Christians and how plausible and pastorally helpful these understandings are. It offers an important and well-informed resource for those with, or preparing for, positions of pastoral responsibility within the Christian Church.
Mental Health, Pastoral, Theology, Biblical
-
This commentary looks at foundational themes for the Christian community such as: hope, holiness, suffering, joy, witness, hospitality, exile, resurrection, leadership. Tackling the themes such as: slavery, exile and refugees, patriarchy, hierarchy, oppression, gender justice, and the risk of hospitality.The book engages through commentary and short excursuses, drawing the reader to consider the more difficult questions.
Commentary, Transformation, Bible
-
In Fragments for Fractured Times, one of the world's leading feminist practical theologians, Nicola Slee, brings together 15 years of papers, articles, talks and sermons, many of them previously unpublished. Collected from diverse times, places, settings and occasions. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of her writing, Slee demonstrates the richness and variety of feminist practical theological writing.
Feminist Theology, Practical Theology
-
The Church is very good at saying all the right things about racial equality. But the reality is that the institution has utterly failed to back up these good intentions with demonstrable efforts to reform. It is a long way from being a place of black flourishing. Unflinching in its critique of the church, Ghost Ship explores the harrowing stories of institutional racism experienced then and now, within the Church of England.
Racism, Bible, Hermeneutics, Black Theology
-
Based on his Cadbury lectures delivered in 1967, The Go-Between God is now considered one of the most important works ever written on the Holy Spirit and mission. This famous book is a reminder that the Holy Spirit urges us toward a communal humanity. Taylor's is a message especially pertinent in an age of crushing multinational capitalism and a rising tide of individual greed and fear of the Other.
Holy Spirit, Mission
-
Theology in the Contemporary World tries to provide the bewildered and intimidated student with a primer that is at once introductory and incisive; approachable and informative. It will help those training for ministry to recover their fascination for the subject of theology and how it could apply to their future ministry.
Theology, Ministry
-
With the dramatic rise in people experiencing a profound sense of anxiety in the face of our dying planet, and a consequent need for churches to be better resourced pastorally and theologically to deal with this threat. Words for a Dying World brings together voices from across the world - from the Pacific islands to the pipelines of Canada, from farming communities in Namibia to activism in the UK.
Public Theology, Ecology, Pastoral
-