John Swinton (1)
Autor de Dementia: Living in the Memories of God
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Sobre El Autor
John Swinton, Ph.D., B.D., R.M.N., R.N.M.H. worked as a nurse for sixteen years, specializing in the areas of psychiatry and learning disability. He also spent a number of years working in the field of hospital chaplaincy, most recently as a community psychiatric chaplain. He now lectures in mostrar más practical theology in the Department of Divinity and Religious Studies, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. 050 mostrar menos
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Obras de John Swinton
Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship (Studies In Religion, Theology, and… (2016) 62 copias
Living Well and Dying Faithfully: Christian Practices for End-of-Life Care (2009) — Editor — 51 copias
Resurrecting the Person: Friendship and the Care of People with Mental Health Problems (2000) 40 copias
Spiritual Dimensions of Pastoral Care: Practical Theology in a Multidisciplinary Context (2000) — Editor — 32 copias
Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Theology of Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology (2005) 29 copias
Obras relacionadas
On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics (2012) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 20 copias
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Swinton and Mowat begin with with practical theology:
"Practical Theology is critical, theological reflection on the practices of the Church as they interact with the practices of the world, with a view to ensuring and enabling faithful participation in God’s redemptive practices in, and for the world" (7).
The church reflects copiously and rigorously on the interpretation of scripture. Practical theology offers rigorous theological reflection on the actual practices of the church.
Next up: qualitative research. Swinton and Mowat survey a few definitions before settling on McLeod’s:
"Qualitative research is a process of careful, rigorous enquiry into aspects of the social world. It produces formal statements or conceptual frameworks that provide new ways of understanding the world, and therefore comprises knowledge that is practically useful for those who work with issues around learning and adjustment to the pressures and demands of the social world" (30).
Qualitative research is rooted in rooted in a methodology, typically constructivism, that views reality as constructed by the subject. Qualitative research with a constructivist ontology and epistemology then uses various methods, “specific techniques that are used for data collection and analysis” (69).
There is a key tension between the worlds of practical theology and qualitative research. Many theologians hold a view of ontology and epistemology (i.e. God exists outside our sensory world and makes himself known through revelation) that contradicts the constructivist foundation of qualitative research. Swinton and Mowat acknowledge this tension and attempt to demonstrate, through definitions and case studies of specific theological qualitative research projects, how these tensions can be resolved.
"Our task has been to lay down some foundational understandings of how Practical Theology can utilize qualitative research in a way that retains the integrity of both disciplines and allows theology in general and Practical Theology in particular to remain faithful and confident in its identity and task" (265).
In the end, qualitative research is a tool to help theologians discern and interpret situations rigorously and faithfully.… (más)