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Title Normativity and empirical research in theology / edited by Johannes A. van der Ven, Michael Scherer-Rath
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 315 pages) : illustrations
Series Empirical studies in theology, 1389-1189 ; v. 10
Empirical studies in theology ; v. 10. 1389-1189
Contents CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART ONE: EXPLANATION ABOUT NORMATIVITY -- Theological Normativity: Ideology or Utopia?: Reflections on the Possible Contribution of Empirical Research -- What You See is What You Get. Social Construction and Normativity in Practical Theology -- Normative Explanation in Practical Theology -- Given through the Senses. A Phenomenological Model of Empirical Theology -- Which Normativity and what Kind of Empirical Research?: From Dualism to Multiple Interplays
An Empirical or A Normative Approach to Practical-theological Research?: A False DilemmaPersonality Theory, Empirical Theology and Normativity -- PART TWO: NORMATIVE IMPLICATIONS OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH -- How Adult is the Religiosity of Adults?: Normative Implications of Empirical Theological Research into Religious Development in the Second Half of Life -- Normative Implications of Designing Empirical Research: Family Research and Reflective Theological Normativity -- The Position of God Images in the Theoretical Research Model
Normative Claims in Pastoral Ministry ResearchEmpirical Research in Practical Theology as a Strategy of Intervention -- Freedom of Religion as a Meta-norm. Relating Theological and Pedagogical Normativeness in Empirical Research into Religious Education -- Empirical Methodology and Normativity -- List of Authors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V
Summary "In this volume, researchers and academics from South Africa, Great Britain, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands debate about the fundamental question of the role of theological normativity in empirical research in theological fields. In fourteen contributions this book would like to illuminate the significance of this central topic for the discipline of practical theology."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Theology -- Research
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Theology.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies.
Theology -- Research
Empirische Forschung
Theologie
Theologie.
Empirische methoden.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Ven, J. A. van der, 1940-
Scherer-Rath, Michael
ISBN 1429407182
9781429407182
9789004126633
9004126635