Elaine Graham
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3873573 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elaine Graham |
| NOMBRES | Elaine |
| APELLIDO | Graham |
| FIRMA | GRAHAM E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Chester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0358-0624 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1948 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Beauty and Brokenness
The BBC TV series The Repair Shop has achieved massive popularity through its combination of traditional craft skills, social history and personal story, brought together in the restoration and repair of everyday objects. Its narratives trace a process ‘from brokenness to beauty’ in which material culture, far from being a distraction from spiritual values and practices, is the vehicle by which the sacredness of the everyday is affirmed. It is su…
Sarah Dunlop, Doing Theology with Photographs
The Sea of Faith 40 Years On
On the fortieth anniversary of its first broadcast in 1984, this article will consider the main themes of the BBC TV series The Sea of Faith , written and presented by the Cambridge philosopher and theologian Don Cupitt. It will attempt to evaluate its significance, then and now. We argue that Cupitt’s ‘radical’ reputation for his advancement of a broadly ‘non-realist’ understanding of God may have overshadowed other equally significant features,…
Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian J. Walsh, Beyond Homelessness
Joan Lockwood O’Donovan, English Public Theology
Don Cupitt
This final article in a three-part series exploring the contemporary significance of the theologian and philosopher of religion Don Cupitt examines the extent to which he might be considered a 'theological pioneer'. There are three possible areas of innovation: Cupitt's work on non-realism, his adoption of postmodern philosophy and his advocacy of a religion of everyday speech. In each of these, Cupitt carried out ground-breaking work, but it is …
Michael J. Paulus Jr, Artificial Intelligence and the Apocalyptic Imagination
Paul Avis, Theology and the Enlightenment
Don Cupitt
This article is the first of three that will evaluate the work and legacy of the Cambridge non-realist theologian and philosopher of religion, Don Cupitt. We begin by suggesting that Cupitt might be depicted as a 'prophet without honour' in both his ecclesiastical home of the Church of England and at the University of Cambridge, where he spent most of his professional life. This is based on the observation that, after a promising early career, Cu…
Don Cupitt
The 1984 BBC TV series The Sea of Faith offered Don Cupitt an exceptional degree of public recognition and notoriety. His advancement of a non-realist and social constructivist theology had a strong polarizing effect on his audience, engendering disapproval and approbation in equal measure. Opinion was strongly divided between those who resisted any kind of critical approach to Christian teaching and those who felt liberated by Cupitt's call for …
Temple, sex, gender and society
This article gives an overview of the main economic, legal and cultural changes around the role of women, debates about gender identity and patterns of marriage and the family that have taken place over the past 80 years since Christianity and Social Order was first published
Cyborg or Goddes
This article works on the premise that critical posthumanism both exposes and calls into question the criteria by which Western modernity has defined the boundaries between nature, humanity, and technology. Yet the religious, cultural and epistemological developments of what is known as the ‘postsecular’ may signal a further blurring of another set of distinctions characteristic of modernity: between sacred and secular, belief and non-belief. Usi…
Philip Butler, Black Transhuman Liberation Theology
Theology and the Public Square
This article asks what happens when theology ‘goes public’: what some of the key issues are in relation to the changing profile and role of religion in society – global, local and national – and how theologians have approached the issue of how the voices of faith might speak into the public domain. Where are the critical points in society, economics, politics, health and welfare where we feel the voices and influence of people of faith are most e…
The human face of God
My contribution to the proceedings to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the formation of the British and Irish Association of Practical Theology focuses on an event that preceded BIAPT’s foundation by almost a decade: a conference entitled ‘The Human Face of God’, held at the University of Manchester in July 1986. I will argue that many of the seeds of 1994 were sown by that conference and were also evident in an article published three years …
Jan-Olav Henriksen, Christianity as Distinct Practices
Rupert Shortt, Outgrowing Dawkins
This book is a direct response to Richard Dawkins’ book Outgrowing God: a beginner’s guide (Bantam Press, 2019) and continues Shortt’s long-standing engagement with New Atheism in such works as God Is No Thing (2015) and Does Religion Do More Harm than Good (2019). The substance of Shortt’s defence of religion is not that it does not have its destructive and dark sides, or even that atheism and religious doubt may not be legitimate intellectual p…
Feminist Critiques, Visions, and Models of the Church
Women have been vastly under-represented within the church’s ministries. Feminist ecclesiologies invariably begin from this situation of invisibility and discrimination, whilst arguing for the historic and contemporary legitimacy of women’s full participation alongside men. Feminist critiques and reconstructions have drawn on biblical and historical evidence in order to refute patterns of hierarchy and exclusion in favour of more egalitarian trad…
How to speak of God? Toward a postsecular apologetics
Against most expectations religion has not vanished from Western culture. If anything, it exercises a greater fascination than ever before. In a world that is more sensitive than ever to religious belief and practice, yet often struggles to accommodate it into secular discourse, how do religious institutions justify their position in a contested and volatile public square? This article argues that the contemporary postsecular context requires a r…
Invitation to Research in Practical Theology
Practical theology as a subject area has grown and become more sophisticated in its methods and self-understanding over the last few decades. This book provides a complete and original research primer in the major theories, approaches and methods at the cutting-edge of research in contemporary practical theology. It represents a reflection on the very practice of the discipline itself, its foundational questions and epistemological claims. Each c…
The decay of western liberalism and the christological alternative
The rise of populist politics presents a range of challenges for the future of democracy. The religious dimensions of populism merit further investigation, not least insofar as appeals to ‘Christian identity’ feature within right-wing, nationalist rhetoric. Theological discourse needs to critique such a misappropriation of Christian discourse both in theory and in practice. First, it must substitute associations of Christianity with exclusive and…
On becoming a practical theologian
This article takes an autobiographical approach to the development of practical theology as a discipline over the past 30 years, with particular attention to my own context of the United Kingdom (UK). The unfolding of my own intellectual story in relation to key issues within the wider academic discourse provides an opportunity to reflect on some of the predominant themes and trends: past, present and future. Changing nomenclature, from ‘pastoral…
Critical Theology
Reflexivity and Rapprochement
Accounts of secularization, decline and marginalization in relation to the public position of religion in western society have failed to account for the continued vitality and relevance of religion in the global public square. It is important, however, to challenge simplistic accounts and think of the new visibility of religion (not least in Europe) in terms of complexity and multi-dimensionality. This article will ask how public theology might c…
Karen V. Guth, Christian Ethics at the Boundary
What's Missing? Gender, Reason and the Post-Secular
This article considers whether contemporary debate about the "post-secular" has overlooked the extent to which, as a concept or epoch, it may be "gendered." Jürgen Habermas has suggested that there is something "missing" from secular reason in the shape of transcendental and metaphysical values; but I will contend that the debate is in danger of neglecting the central role of gender—so integral to the conceptual and political formation of moderni…
What Makes a Good City? Reflections on Urban Life and Faith
This article is a case study in public theology, drawing on the author's experience as a member of the Church of England's Commission on Urban Life and Faith (CULF). Following in the footsteps of the seminal Archbishops' Commission on Urban Priority Areas (ACUPA) report, Faith in the City (1985), CULF aimed to evaluate the future of the urban church and its role in the local community, arguing that the impact of faith-based organizations constitu…
Cyborg or Goddes
This article works on the premise that critical posthumanism both exposes and calls into question the criteria by which Western modernity has defined the boundaries between nature, humanity, and technology. Yet the religious, cultural and epistemological developments of what is known as the ‘postsecular’ may signal a further blurring of another set of distinctions characteristic of modernity: between sacred and secular, belief and non-belief. Usi…
The decay of western liberalism and the christological alternative
The rise of populist politics presents a range of challenges for the future of democracy. The religious dimensions of populism merit further investigation, not least insofar as appeals to ‘Christian identity’ feature within right-wing, nationalist rhetoric. Theological discourse needs to critique such a misappropriation of Christian discourse both in theory and in practice. First, it must substitute associations of Christianity with exclusive and…
The state of the art
Practical theology has undergone a number of significant transformations over the past 30 years, moving from the terminology of 'pastoral', with an emphasis on the personal cure of souls, to 'practical', in which questions of methods, sources and norms figure prominently as part of an enquiry into the dynamic interplay between the practices of faith and theological tradition. This article investigates further these characteristics of practical th…
A Window on the Soul
In this article I examine public statements about the relationship between private faith and public reason through the pronouncements of four leading politicians: Tony Blair (United Kingdom), Helen Clark (New Zealand), Barack Obama (United States of America) and Kevin Rudd (Australia). Of the four, Blair and Rudd have been most articulate about the way in which their own personal faith-commitments have informed their political motivations, but in…
Logic and Semiotic
Gender, Personhood and Theology
One of the most significant phenomena within the Western Church over the past twenty-five years has been the emergence of feminist theology. Fuelled by the second wave of the modern women's movement, drawing upon the theoretical and critical stances of academic feminism, and inspired by Latin American Liberation Theology, feminist theologians have achieved a remarkable body of work in a relatively short time. They have sought to establish the opp…
From Space to Woman-Space
Theology in the city
La pensee sociale chretienne doit toujours rester dynamique, forgee a l'intersection de la realite sociale et economique, de la foi et de la pratique chretiennes. Faith in the City represente ce type de reponse a un contexte en evolution bien qu'en son temps, le document se fondait sur les contradictions d'une Eglise d'Etat qui etait largement dominee par les membres de la classe moyenne. Il s'agissait de garder une foi vivante chez ceux qui etai…
Words Made Flesh
Good News For The Socially Excluded? Political Theology And The Politics Of New Labour
(2000). Good News For The Socially Excluded? Political Theology And The Politics Of New Labour. Political Theology: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 76-99
Good News for the Socially Excluded? Political Theology and the Politics of New Labour
The Pastoral Nature of Theology
Bioethics after Posthumanism
Three recent books by prominent social and political theorists (Francis Fukuyama, Gregory Stock and Jürgen Habermas) have engaged with the impact of biotechnology on our very concepts of human nature, and the corresponding challenges to ethical discourse of the so-called ‘posthuman condition’. All three writers raise important questions about the role of concepts of ‘human nature’ in moral discourse, and the paper will subject their claims to the…
In Whose Image? Representations of Technology and the ‘Ends’ of Humanity
This article is an attempt to introduce a theological voice into the discussion about the ethical and existential implications of the so-called ‘posthuman’, and in particular whether the digital, cybernetic or genetic age represents an endangerment to the survival of the human subject or the means towards the evolution of a successor species. This is of particular interest to theology when even the most secular of technoscientific discourses make…
Power, Knowledge and Authority in Public Theology
One of the most distinctive movements within Christian theology to have emerged over the past generation has been the various theologies of liberation which originated in Latin America but which now span a diversity of styles, including feminist and womanist, Black, Asian and lesbian/gay/bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) theologies. All theologies of liberation purport to give a voice to the experiences of those formerly silenced or marginalized …
Why Practical Theology Must Go Public
This article makes the case for a strong affinity between pastoral studies and practical theology as conceived in the UK and the emergent field of public theology. Practical theology in the UK has resisted over-specialization in the discipline, creating an eclectic and diverse mix of institutional contexts and intellectual approaches. It has also succeeded in holding together the "public" and "private" in a way that has often put it in the vangua…
Special Issue—Public Theology and the City
What Makes a Good City? Reflections on Urban Life and Faith
This article is a case study in public theology, drawing on the author's experience as a member of the Church of England's Commission on Urban Life and Faith (CULF). Following in the footsteps of the seminal Archbishops' Commission on Urban Priority Areas (ACUPA) report, Faith in the City (1985), CULF aimed to evaluate the future of the urban church and its role in the local community, arguing that the impact of faith-based organizations constitu…
Places of Redemption
Health, Wealth or Wisdom? Religion and the Paradox of Prosperity
The so-called 'happiness hypothesis', associated with the work of the economist Richard Layard, has attracted much public debate over recent years. Its main contention is that despite rising levels of material prosperity in the west, incidence of recorded happiness and greater quality of life has not increased accordingly. In considering the major contributory factors to happiness and well-being, however, Layard is not alone in identifying the si…
A Window on the Soul
In this article I examine public statements about the relationship between private faith and public reason through the pronouncements of four leading politicians: Tony Blair (United Kingdom), Helen Clark (New Zealand), Barack Obama (United States of America) and Kevin Rudd (Australia). Of the four, Blair and Rudd have been most articulate about the way in which their own personal faith-commitments have informed their political motivations, but in…
Being, making and imagining
The title of this paper is intended to be reminiscent of a lecture given by Martin Heidegger in 1951, entitled ‘Building Dwelling Thinking’, in which he speculated on the role of architecture in society. Using his fourfold typology, I develop some consideration of how, similarly, theological reflections upon the relationships between ‘earth, sky, gods and mortals’ – or nature, transcendence, divinity and humanity – might enable new framings of wh…
Frailty and Flourishing
This is an edited version of Elaine Graham’s response to the opening keynote lecture delivered by Alister McGrath at the annual conference of the British and Irish Association for Practical Theology in London on 12 July 2011
A Remembrance of Things (Best) Forgotten
The US TV series Mad Men, set in an advertising agency in 1960s New York, offers a vivid portrayal of corporate sexism in pre-feminist America, and yet its creators defend it as a ‘feminist’ show. Reflecting on the series, I will draw out two key elements which seem significant for a consideration of the current state of feminism in church and academy, both of which centre around what it means to remember or (not) to forget. First, there is the p…
What's Missing? Gender, Reason and the Post-Secular
This article considers whether contemporary debate about the "post-secular" has overlooked the extent to which, as a concept or epoch, it may be "gendered." Jürgen Habermas has suggested that there is something "missing" from secular reason in the shape of transcendental and metaphysical values; but I will contend that the debate is in danger of neglecting the central role of gender—so integral to the conceptual and political formation of moderni…
From Where Does the Red Tory Speak? Phillip Blond, Theology and Public Discourse
This is the author's pdf version of an article published in Political Theology. The article can be found at www.politicaltheology.com/PT
Is Practical Theology a form of ‘Action Research’?
This is the published PDF version of an article published in International Journal of Practical Theology© 2013. The definitive version is available at www.degruyter.com/view/j/ijpt-2013-17-issue-1
Helen Cameron, John Reader, Victoria Slater with Chris Rowland, Theological Reflection for Human Flourishing
The Faith Lives of Women and Girls
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