Theology & Practice
This cluster researches interactions between Christian theology and faith-based practice, including work on creative practice and on socio-political themes. ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤCluster Lead: Heather Walton
Staff
Publications
2026
Walton, H. (2026) Practical theology as creative work in challenging times. Practical Theology,
Spiro, M., Pappenheim, C. (2026) Echoes of the Holocaust in 1960s' Scotland: commemoration and continuity in Glasgow's Jewish Echo. Bloomsbury Publishing
Nelson, S. (2026) The human person: three perspectives for the Twenty-first Century. Baptist Quarterly, 57, pp. 215-230. (doi: 10.1080/0005576X.2026.2707770)
Nelson, S. (2026) What I have learned from Baptist History. Baptist Quarterly, 57, pp. 155-157. (doi: 10.1080/0005576X.2026.2707765)
2025
(2025) Theology Through Creative Practice: Engagements with the Work of Heather Walton.
Walton, H. (2025) Practical Theology Beyond the Empirical Turn. SCM Press
Walton, H. (2025) Everyday extremes: encountering the wild in theological discourses of everyday life. T&T Clark
Walton, H. (2025) Theopoetics of the broken form. T&T Clark
Clague, J. (2025) Structural inequality and the social determinants of unintended pregnancy. Wipf & Stock
2024
Walton, H. (2024) Rethinking relations between art and theology in troubled times. Routledge
Gay, D., Walton, H., Ross, M. (2024) Discerning Scotland's Future: Ecumenical conversations in Scottish churches about Scotland’s constitutional future.
Gay, D. (2024) On conciliarity and Protestantisation: a Reformed Presbyterian perspective on synodality. Messenger Publications
2023
Walton, H. (2023) Registering. Theology and poetic practice. SCM Press
2022
Walton, H. (2022) Rubble and dust: a sacrament of ruins in art and theology. Sacristy Press
Gay, D. (2022) Hannah Strømmen and Ulrich Schmiedel, The Claim to Christianity: Responding to the Far Right(London: SCM, 2020), pp. 192, ISBN 978-0334059233. £19.99. Theology in Scotland, 29, pp. 87-97. (doi: 10.15664/tis.v29i1.2428)
Gay, D. (2022) Justice, peace and national identity in Scotland. WCC Publications & Globethics.net
Gay, D. (2022) Worship and discipleship as meta-themes in the theology of John Swinton. Baylor University Press
2021
Gay, D. (2021) Discipling populism: a theopolitical alternative to denial or demonizing. Brill
Toth, L., Gay, D. (2021) Editorial: theology and the environment. Theology in Scotland, 28, pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.15664/tis.v28i2.2322)
Gay, D. (2021) The Edinburgh books and the Iowa books: the challenge of Marilynne Robinson’s literary-theological recovery of Calvin and Calvinism. KVHAA (Kungl. Vitterhets Historie Och Antikvitets Akademien)
Spiro, M. (2021) Crossing in/to Canada: Canada as point of arrival in Holocaust survivor memoirs. University of Toronto Press
Clague, J. (2021) Amoris Laetitia and the state of the world’s families. Dharmaram Publications
Walton, H. (2021) The children are always lost: Marilynne Robinson and the poetics of theology. KVHAA (Kungl. Vitterhets Historie Och Antikvitets Akademien)
2020
Denham, J., Gay, D., Lampard, R., Reddie, A., Ryan, B. (2020) Responses from beyond Anglicanism. SPCK Publishing
Davis, R. A., Conroy, J. C., Clague, J. (2020) Schools as factories: the limits of a metaphor. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 54, pp. 1471-1488. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9752.12525)
Walton, H. (2020) A theopoetics in ruins. Toronto Journal of Theology, 36, pp. 159-169. (doi: 10.3138/tjt-2020-0082)
2019
Spiro, M. (2019) Fascism and anti-fascism. Cambridge University Press
Alexander, P., Holtschneider, H., Spiro, M. (2019) Special Issue on "Narrative Spaces at the Margins of British Jewish Culture(s)" [Guest Editors] Shofar, 37,
Gay, D. (2019) Theological constructions of Scottish national identity. Oxford University Press
Walton, H. (2019) Creativity at the edge of chaos: theopoetics in a blazing world. Literature and Theology, 33, pp. 336-356. (doi: 10.1093/litthe/frz029)
Walton, H. (2019) Special Issue [Guest Editor] Literature and Theology, 33,
Walton, H. (2019) Theopoetics as challenge, change and creative making. Literature and Theology, 33, pp. 229-232. (doi: 10.1093/litthe/frz030)
Walton, H. (2019) A theopoetics of practice: re-forming in practical theology. International Journal of Practical Theology, 23, pp. 3-23. (doi: 10.1515/ijpt-2018-0033)
Graham, E., Walton, H., Ward, F. (2019) Theological Reflection: Methods [2nd Ed.] SCM Press
Spiro, M. (2019) Exhibiting Jewish culture in Postwar Britain: Glasgow's 1951 Festival of Jewish Arts. Shofar, 37, pp. 95-130. (doi: 10.5703/shofar.37.3.0095)
Alexander, P., Holtschneider, H., Spiro, M. (2019) Introduction: Narrative spaces at the margins of British-Jewish culture(s) Shofar, 37, pp. 1-18. (doi: 10.5703/shofar.37.3.0001)
(2019) Jewish Migration in Modern Times: The Case of Eastern Europe.
2018
Gay, D. (2018) Church and State in Scotland: Developing Law. By Francis Lyall. Journal of Church and State, 60, pp. 545-547. (doi: 10.1093/jcs/csy039)
Bennett, Z., Graham, E., Pattison, S., Walton, H. (2018) Invitation to Research in Practical Theology. Routledge
Gay, D. (2018) The Kirk and the Union. Scottish Affairs, 27, pp. 92-98. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0227)
Gay, D. (2018) God Be In My Mouth: 40 Ways to Grow as a Preacher. St. Andrew Press
Walton, H. (2018) We have never been theologians: postsecularism and practical theology. Practical Theology, 11, pp. 218-230. (doi: 10.1080/1756073X.2018.1461489)
2017
Walton, H. (2017) Between Ascension and Pentecost: a theology of adoption. Brill
Gay, D. (2017) Reforming The Kirk: the Future of the Church of Scotland. Saint Andrew Press
Goldin, S., Spiro, M., Ury, S. (2017) East European Jewish Affairs, Special Issue: Jewish Migration in Modern Times: The Case of Eastern Europe. [Guest Editors: Semion Goldin, Mia Spiro, and Scott Ury] East European Jewish Affairs, 47, pp. 127-339.
Walton, H. (2017) Theology in the way we live now: a theopoetics of life writing. Concilium, 2017,
Gay, D. (2017) ‘The Practical is Political’ — Duncan Forrester and the ‘political service’ of theology in Scotland. Practical Theology, 10, pp. 277-290. (doi: 10.1080/1756073X.2017.1354513)
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The Theology and Practice Research Cluster engages in research on key areas where Christian theology and faith-based practice interact and mutually inform each other. Within this broad terrain our current research is focussed in three key areas:
• The social, political and ethical outworkings of theological reflection. Within this field there are specific emphases upon Catholic Social Teaching, political theology, theology and disablility, theology and gender justice, the climate emergency.
• Ecclesial practices and faith communities within their cultural context. This area of research includes specialisms in homiletics, ethnography and ecclesiology, Christian witness in civic, national and international life.
• Theology and creative practice. Innovative work is being undertaken in theology expressed in artistic forms across a range of cultural arenas including literature, music and the visual arts.