Christian Faith and Christian Learning : A Theological Action Research Account (Hardcover)

Introduction;?PART 1 ? The problem with Christian learning and a theological action research response;?1. Decline, discipleship, and doctrina. The contemporary churches’ valorisation of teaching and learning; 2. Learning from the longer Christian tradition: a different kind of teaching and learning - a different kind of knowing?; 3. Uncovering hidden faith-learning today: a theological action research response;?PART 2 ? Faith-learning, agency and eschatology: a theological action research journey with sites of practice;?4. Faith is for practice. What’s the point of learning?;?5. “Deep conversation” as a (the?) everyday practice for faith learning; 6. The dangers of “the Christian teacher”: agency and service in faith-learning; 7. Faith-learning and the challenge of its ‘resourcing’; 8. Interruption, interconnectedness, and presence: the place of trust in faith learning;?9. The Holy Spirit and discernment: the need for a spirituality for faith learning; 10. Holiness, wisdom, and the ends of learning;?11. Faith learning and commissioned ministries: questions of church;?PART 3 ? Re-figuring church for God’s teaching: a call for a radical reimagining of Christian teaching and learning;?12. Faith-learning as everyday mystery: a theological-epistemological account; 13. Enabling the mystery of divine pedagogy: re-imagining church for faith-learning;?Postscript: methodological learning for theological action research.