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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Using theological action research to embed Catholic social teaching in a Catholic development agency : abseiling on the road to Emmaus

Brouard, Susanna January 2015 (has links)
Little has been written on the pedagogy of Catholic Social Teaching and how to teach it in a way that encourages a living out of its main principles. Working for the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), I was interested in how staff of diverse faith backgrounds might be encouraged to live out, in their work, the espoused values of the organisation, rooted as they are in the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. My research question asked how effective Theological Action Research is in enabling CAFOD staff to interpret, embed and embody CAFOD’s values in their work. As an insider-researcher, I set up a research project called Reflecting on Values and invited 12 members of staff, from three different parts of the organisation, to conduct their own research on one of CAFOD’s values in conversation with their practice. Theological Action Research was both the research methodology and a tool under investigation. My findings were threefold. First, Theological Action Research revealed itself to be a strong tool of adult theological education, which allowed CAFOD staff to interpret, embed and embody CAFOD’s espoused values in their work. Second, the research process identified practices that enhanced the confidence and competence of staff in ecclesiology, in religious and faith language, and in theological reflection. Third, the data revealed an operant Eucharistic theology rooted in CAFOD’s practice of responding to poverty and injustice pastorally, politically, and in partnership. The research is original in that it demonstrates how CAFOD’s practices embody Catholic Social Teaching and can contribute to its development. It also offers the first systematic evaluation of Theological Action Research as a tool for adult theological education which is rooted in both theory and practice. The findings affirm the importance of allowing space for theological reflection within CAFOD, and that for this organisation, the practice of theological reflection is an essential dimension of living out its Catholic identity.
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Diakonisyner i pandemins praktiker : ett teologiskt aktionsforskningsprojekt

Löfgren, Susanna January 2021 (has links)
I Svenska kyrkan finns många olika sätt att tänka om och beskriva församlingens diakoni. I diakoniforskning används ibland begreppet diakonisyn, ett begrepp som i uppsatsen får innefatta individens och kollektivets syn på och föreställningar om diakoni. Föreställningar som speglar olika tankar om vad diakoni är och kan eller bör vara. I studien genomförs ett teologiskt aktionsprojekt där fyra församlingspraktiker med hjälp av teologins fyra röster får reflektera över diakonal praktik under covid-19-pandemins tid i Svenska kyrkans församlingar i Linköpings stift. Reflektionen sker tillsammans med forskaren i en forskargrupp, en undersökande gemenskap. Teologins fyra röster (den praktiserade teologin, den uttalade teologin, den normativa teologin och den akademiska teologin), dvs. röster från teori och praktik i Svenska kyrkan, möts i ett samtal på jämbördiga villkor i forskargruppen. Studien ger en plattform för församlingspraktiker att medvetandegöra och begreppsliggöra församlingens diakonala praktik, och nå insikter om den för att förändra såväl den framtida praktiken som teologin.  Studien bidrar med kunskap om diakonisyner som genomsyrar diakonal praktik.

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