Table of Contents

Preface
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Lived Theology: Method, Style and Pedagogy - Charles Marsh

Part One: Lived Theology as Method
Chapter 1: Eschatological Memories of Everyday Life - Ted A. Smith
Chapter 2: The Risks and Responsibilities of Lived Theology - Peter Slade
Chapter 3: Doing Theological Ethics with Incompetent Christians: Social Problems and Religious Creativity - Willis Jenkins
Chapter 4: Theological Disfigurations of Christian Identity - Willie James Jennings

Part Two: Lived Theology as Style
Chapter 5: Daring to Write Theology without Footnotes - Susan R. Holman
Chapter 6: Crossing and Experimentation: Pauli Murray's Activism as Christian Practice and Lived Theology - Sarah Azaransky
Chapter 7: Exploring the Role of Ethnography in Theology: A Work in Progress - Mary McClintock Fulkerson
Chapter 8: Descent into the Ordinary: Lived Theology, War, and the Moral Agency of Civilians - John Kiess
Chapter 9: Insert Soul Here: Lived Theology as Witness - David Dark

Part Three: Lived Theology as Pedagogy
Chapter 10: Lived Theology 101: Lessons from an Undergraduate Classroom - Lori Brandt Hale
Chapter 11: Teaching to Transform: Reflections on the Gifts and Challenges of Service-Learning as the Practice of Lived Theology - Jacqueline A. Bussie
Chapter 12: Public Discipleship, Constructive Theology and Grassroots Activism - Jennifer M. McBride
Chapter 13: Organizing for Justice as a Theological Practice - Susan M. Glisson

Epilogue
Chapter 14: Lived Theology is Being Led into Mystery - John W. de Gruchy

Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Charles Marsh is Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.

Peter Slade is Professor of Religion at Ashland University.

Sarah Azaransky is Assistant Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary.

Reviews

"I recommend this book to theologians attracted to ethnography, and vice versa, as a varied and thorough exploration of the gifts and challenges that dwell at the intersection of those endeavors. Theological educators may take an interest as well; the theme of integrating community engagement into theological study runs throughout the book. Many of the questions of scholarly subjectivity and research ethics raised herein are familiar for those
trained in ethnography. However, the project is clearly breaking new ground in raising these questions in the context of theological scholarship, a development to be celebrated."-Miranda Hassett, Anglican Theological Review
"[T]his diverse work should prove engaging for any theologian interested in practices. It coheres through shared conviction that the lived realities of faith constitute a rich and primary focal point for theological inquiry. Together, the authors illustrate and explore this conviction well. I sensed an implicit camaraderie in their loosely united contributions. Their diversity provides a broad and engaging introduction to the work of lived theology while
gesturing toward a much larger conversation."--Reading Religion
"Lived Theology is a book that is more than the sum of its parts. It is more because under the insightful direction of Charles Marsh, Peter Slade, and Sarah Azaransky these essays offer a theological alternative we have so desperately needed. In the very least, this book should end the unhappy tension between academic and popular theology." --Stanley Hauerwas, author of The Work of Theology
"Lived Theology is essential reading for students, activists, pastors, and scholars who are attentive to present and future opportunities for theological engagement and witness in the public square. These essays establish the importance of lived theology as a rationale and methodology for analysis of the primary source data of social change, such as field reports, position papers and oral histories, in order to discover vital theological conversations,
convictions and commitments." --Cheryl J. Sanders, author of Saints in Exile
"Lived theology has been among the most vivifying and necessary scholarly movements of the last decade and a half. In illustrating how to read the texts of people's lives for clues about God, this book inspires, tempts, informs, and provokes." --Lauren F. Winner, Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity School