Christian Theology in Practice

<DIV>For the past fifty years scholars in both pastoral and practical theology have attempted to recapture human religious experience and practice as essential sites for theological engagement -- redefining in the process what theology is how it is done and who does it. In this book Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore shows how this trend in scholarship has led to an expanded subject matter alternative ways of knowing and richer terms for analysis in doing Christian theology.<br><br> Tracing more than two decades of her own search for a more inclusive discipline -- one that truly grapples with theology in the midst of life -- <I>Christian Theology in Practice</I> shows not only where Miller-McLemore herself has traveled in the field but also how pastoral and practical theology has developed during this time. Looking forward Miller-McLemore calls on the academy and Christian congregations to disrupt conventional theological boundaries and to acknowledge the multiplicity of shapes and places in which the wisdom of God appears..</DIV>