Exploring ordinary theology : everyday Christian believing and the church / edited by Jeff Astley and Leslie J. Francis.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The analysis, investigation and application of ordinary theology / Jeff Astley -- Ordinary theology, theological method and constructive ecclesiology / Nicholas M. Healy -- Ordinary theology as 'mother tongue' / Anthony Lees-Smith -- Deconversion and ordinary theology : a Catholic study / Tom Beaudoin and J. Patrick Hornbeck II -- Ordinary theology and the learning conversation with academic theology / Jeff Astley -- Power in the local church : locating the implicit / Martyn Percy -- Ordinary theologians as signal processors of the spirit / Michael Armstrong -- Jesus as exemplar / Ann Christie -- Ordinary readers and reader perspectives on sacred texts : drawing on empirical theology and Jungian psychology / Leslie J. Francis -- Extraordinary eschatology : insights from ordinary theologians / Michael Armstrong -- Ordinary theology and the British Assemblies of God doctrinal tradition : a qualitative study / Mark J. Cartledge -- Congregational hermeneutics : towards virtuous apprenticeship / Andrew Rogers -- The Bible and ordinary readers / Andrew Village -- How far is it to Bethlehem? : exploring the ordinary theology of occasional churchgoers / David Walker -- Ordinary prayer and the activity of God : reading a cathedral prayer board / Tania ap Siôn -- A tune beyond us, yet ourselves : ordinary worship and ordinary theology / Bridget Nichols -- A study in ordinary theological ethics : thinking about eating / Matthew Barton and Rachel Muers -- Ordinary discipleship / Roger L. Walton -- Sharing friendship : God's love in ordinary church life / John B. Thomson -- Ordinary learning / Helen Savage -- Ordinary theology as process : a phenomenographic approach / Grant Barclay.