Redemptive Transformation In Practical Theology: Essays In Honor Of James E. Loder Jr.

by Wright, Dana R.

• ISBN13: 9780802826893
• ISBN10: 080282689X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-15
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Richard R. Osmer
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction Are You There? Comedic Interrogation in the Life and Witness of James E. Loder Jr.	1	(42)
Dana R. Wright
John D. Kuentzel
I. Redemptive Transformation within Ecclesial Praxis
``Trampling Down Death by Death'': Double Negation in Developmental Theory and Baptismal Theology	43	(26)
Russell Haitch
Biting and Chomping Our Salvation: Holy Eucharist, Radically Understood	69	(26)
Marilyn McCord Adams
The Way of Love: Loder, Levinas, and Ethical Transformation through Preaching	95	(21)
John S. McClure
Transforming Encounter in the Borderlands: A Study of Matthew 15:21-28	116	(17)
Daniel S. Schipani
Leadership and Serendipitous Discipleship: A Case Study of Congregational Transformation	133	(20)
Robert K. Martin
Youth, Passion, and Intimacy in the Context of Koinonia: James E. Loder's Contributions to a Practical Theology of Imitatio Christi for Youth Ministry	153	(36)
Dana R. Wright
Kenda Creasy Dean
II. Redemptive Transformation of Practical Theology
Remembering the Poor: Transforming Christian Practice	189	(27)
Susanne Johnson
Paradigmatic Madness and Redemptive Creativity in Practical Theology: A Biblical Interpretation of the Theological and Methodological Significance of James E. Loder's Neo-Chalcedonian Science for the Postmodern Context	216	(36)
Dana R. Wright
George Lindbeck and Thomas F. Torrance on Christian Language and the Knowledge of God	252	(27)
Thomas John Hastings
Transformational Narrative in a Non-Transformational Tradition	279	(19)
Margaret A. Krych
A Summary of James E. Loder's Theory of Christian Education	298	(27)
Russell Haitch
III. Redemptive Transformation beyond Practical Theology
The Philosophical Turn to Relationality and the Responsibility of Practical Theology	325	(22)
F. LeRon Shults
The Heidegger in Loder (or, How the Nothing Became the Void): Provoking Wonder in Education	347	(26)
John D. Kuentzel
Loder and Mystical Spirituality: Particularity, Universality, and Intelligence	373	(28)
Eolene Boyd-MacMillan
Afterword The Potential Contribution of James E. Loader Jr. to Practical Theological Science	401	(31)
Dana R. Wright
Bibliography	432	(21)
Contributors	453