Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship. Anne-Marie Ellithorpe

and Charles Taylor, it is a shared implicit “cognitive schema.” See Claudia Strauss, “The Imaginary,” Anthropological Theory 6, no. 3 (2006): 323.

      35 35 Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries, 23.

      36 36 James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2009), 66.

      37 37 Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), 172.

      38 38 Contrast for example, the few, yet deeply loyal, life-long German friends with a relatively open, loose, and fluid approach to friendship in the United States. See Greg Nees, Germany: Unraveling an Enigma (Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 2000), 66–68. Variations in the experience of friendship between North American and African settings also reflect variations in social reality and social understandings. See, for example, Glenn Adams and Victoria C. Plaut, “The Cultural Grounding of Personal Relationship: Friendship in North American and West African Worlds,” Personal Relationships 10, no. 3 (2003): 346.

      39 39 Willie James Jennings, The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), 4.

      40 40 Jennings, The Christian Imagination, 6.

      41 41 See Richard Rorty, “Philosophy as Science, as Metaphor, and as Politics,” in Essays on Heidegger and Others (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 13.

      42 42 Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries, 6.

      43 43 Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries, 6.

      44 44 Strauss, “The Imaginary,” 323.

      45 45 Strauss, “The Imaginary,” 323.

      46 46 Taylor, Secular Age, 175. Italics original.

      47 47 Taylor, Secular Age, 175.

      48 48 James K.A. Smith, to the contrary, asserts that despite a dynamic and dialectical relationship between the two, practices precede and carry the understanding. See Smith, Desiring the Kingdom, 67 n.53.

      49 49 Wenger, Communities of Practice, 83. See also Kent Eilers, “New Monastic Social Imagination: Theological Retrieval For Ecclesial Renewal,” American Theological Inquiry: A Biannual Journal of Theology, Culture & History 6, no. 2 (2013): 54–55.

      50 50 Smith and Smith, “Introduction: Practices, Faith, and Pedagogy,” 13.

      51 51 James K.A. Smith, Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2013), 148.

      52 52 Stephen Pattison, The Challenge of Practical Theology: Selected Essays (London: Jessica Kingsley, 2007), 284.

      53 53 Elaine Graham, Heather Walton, and Frances Ward, Theological Reflection: Methods (London: SCM, 2005), 138.

      54 54 In an appendix at the end of this book, I trace the development of critical correlation, followed by a consideration of objections to, challenges with, and strengths of this methodology.

      55 55 David Tracy, Blessed Rage for Order: The New Pluralism in Theology, Reprint ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975), 32.

      56 56 James K.A. Smith, Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006), 126. See also Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider (Auckland: Mandarin, 1992). The movie is inspired by the book, but differs from it in emphasis, narration, and detail.

      57 57 Witi Ihimaera, The Parihaka Woman (Auckland: Random House, 2011).

      58 58 Hirini Kaa, “He Ngākau Hou: Te Hāhi Mihinare and the Renegotiation of Mātauranga, c.1800–1992” (PhD thesis, University of Auckland, 2014), 14.

      59 59 Kaa, “He Ngākau Hou,” 257.

      60 60 Kaa, “He Ngākau Hou,” 257.

      61 61 See also Claire Wolfteich, “Animating Questions: Spirituality and Practical Theology,” International Journal of Practical Theology 13, no. 1 (2009): 123.

      62 62 Neil Darragh, At Home in the Earth: Seeking an Earth-Centred Spirituality (Auckland: Accent, 2000), 2.

      63 63 Smith, Who’s Afraid, 127.

      64 64 Smith, Who’s Afraid, 127.

      65 65 Linda Tuhiwai Smith, “Kaupapa Māori Research- Some Kaupapa Māori Principles,” in Kaupapa Rangahau A Reader: A Collection of Readings from the Kaupapa Māori Research Workshop Series Led, ed. L. Pihama and K. South (Te Kotahi Research Institute), 52.

      66 66 Wayne Manaaki Rihari Te Kaawa, “Re-visioning Christology through a Māori Lens” (PhD thesis, University of Otago, 2020), 19.

      67 67 Te Kaawa, “Re-visioning Christology,” 19.

      68 68 Richard R. Osmer, “Toward a New Story of Practical Theology,” International Journal of Practical Theology 16, no. 1 (2012): 72.

      69 69 Osmer, “Toward a New Story,” 72.

      70 70 David Tracy, “A Correlational Model of Practical Theology Revisited,” in Religion, Diversity and Conflict, ed. Edward Foley (Munster: LIT Verlag, 2011), 50.

      71 71 Don S. Browning, A Fundamental Practical Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996), 8.

      72 72 Browning, A Fundamental Practical Theology, 130.

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