Bücher von Frances Ward

Christians often find it difficult to talk or preach or engage with the possibility of climate catastrophe and an uninhabitable earth, for the questions are enormous. Faith in God needs to engage with the reality of the tragic loss of creation through anthropogenic impact.If we're living in the end times, then how should we live? Wracked with grief, anxiety and guilt, with foreboding deep as death? How is it possible to live hopefully, even as we face realistically the inevitability of the radical impact of an unpredictable climate, rising sea levels, the collapse of biodiversity? How do we remain faithful to God and loving to our neighbour, particularly if our neighbours are exiles and immigrants because their homes are no longer inhabitable? What do we tell our children and grandchildren, so they don't grow up completely overwhelmed by anxiety, such that mental illness levels continue to soar?Frances Wardattempts to think through some of these questions; to continue to have faith, hope, and love in response to God. It is a Christian response to eco-anxiety, a theological and contemplative reflection to sustain a fierce hope that hopes against hope. It is a deep lament that provokes a fierce hope to enable humanity to live life to the full, like there's no tomorrow.

Theological Reflections: Methods provides a basic introduction to a variety of models of theological reflection and identifies their strengths and weaknesses, providing historical and contemporary examples of these models. It reflects the diversity of church and global traditions and the various approaches to theological reflection, and more.

Learning provides an accessible and thorough resource for all those involved in theological education, ministerial formation and ministerial supervision. It explores the nature of ministry and tbrmation for 21st Century church and public life. It argues for the importance of supervision in the learning contexts of placement. parish and pastorate and presents an exciting model of supervision as reflective practice that draws on existing literature from different disciplines, including other helping professions, literature and practical theology and the methods and insights of Clinical Pastoral Education. Chapters cover stimulating and useful areas tbr consideration by the theological educator and ministerial student. such as doing theological reflection in context; resistance to learning; coping with loss and thilure; dynamics of power in ministry and issues of transculturalism, gender and sexuality in ministry. It also offers was in which the effectiveness of placement learning can be evaluated. Frances Ward is a priest in the Diocese of Manchester and is also co-author of Studying Local Churchcs:.4 Handbook, and co-author of Theological Rqlectioir Methods, both SCM Press.