Aquifer Analysis: Told And Untold Stories In Warwick Churches, Vaughan S. Roberts
Nov 2014
Aquifer Analysis: Told And Untold Stories In Warwick Churches, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
It was originally a presentation to a seminar on organizational storytelling at Lincoln Business School in 2013 exploring how told and untold stories were filtered during a narrative review by a team of churches in Warwick, UK.
Review Of 'Saving Paradise' (2008) By Brock & Parker And 'The Passion Story' (2008) Ed Kupfer, Vaughan S. Roberts
May 2009
Review Of 'Saving Paradise' (2008) By Brock & Parker And 'The Passion Story' (2008) Ed Kupfer, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
No abstract provided.
A Sacramental Viewing Of 'Atonement': The Movie, Vaughan S. Roberts
May 2008
A Sacramental Viewing Of 'Atonement': The Movie, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
The movie version of Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement, directed by Joe Wright, raises interesting questions about implicit sacraments in films. This presentation explores how the film of Atonement develops and introduces Christian themes into the storyline and the way in which this might reflect more widely upon the place of Christianity in a secular world. A version was written up for the journal Implicit Religion and can be found here https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/IR/article/view/6300
Hearts Go Walking: Conversations Between Poetry, Prayer And Theology, Vaughan S. Roberts
Sep 2007
Hearts Go Walking: Conversations Between Poetry, Prayer And Theology, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
There are many potential connections between poetry, prayer and theology. This presentation briefly explores each subject in turn before looking at how they might converse with each other through various poems under the headings of: (a) prayer in the world; (b) prayer as lover; (c) prayer as apophatic encounter; and (d) prayer as divine meeting.
Review Of 'The Seven Basic Plots' (2004) By Christopher Booker, Vaughan S. Roberts
Nov 2004
Review Of 'The Seven Basic Plots' (2004) By Christopher Booker, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
No abstract provided.
Review Of 'If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things' (2002) By Jon Mcgregor, Vaughan S. Roberts
Jan 2003
Review Of 'If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things' (2002) By Jon Mcgregor, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
No abstract provided.
A Body Of Consensus: The Church As Embodied Organization, Vaughan S. Roberts
Dec 1999
A Body Of Consensus: The Church As Embodied Organization, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
This chapter examines how thinking about the nature of embodiment might inform an understanding of how this metaphor is used to describe the Church. It begins by looking at two important metaphorical uses of the body in the New Testament (the Last Supper and the Church as the Body of Christ) and then employs ideas from the writings of Mark Johnson, John O’Neil, Philip A. Mellor and Chris Shilling to see how they could inform theological notions of embodied unity, diversity, contingency and dialectic. It concludes by arguing that the Church is an embodiment of consensus and conflict.
Theology For The Beach, Vaughan S. Roberts
Jun 1998
Theology For The Beach, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
Arising from my paper ‘The Sea of Faith: After Dover Beach’ (1997) this presentation to an annual conference of naval chaplains explores how water and sea might function as organizational metaphors for chaplaincy ministry. A fully revised version was published as ‘Water as an implicit metaphor for organizational change within the Church’ (2002) in the journal Implicit Religion and can be found here: https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/IR/article/view/2946/
The Beginning And End Of The Church, Vaughan S. Roberts
Jun 1997
The Beginning And End Of The Church, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
This paper brings together some organizational insights from within the Church (Carl Dudley’s ideas on rigorous and relational faith) and from outside the Church (Nils Brunsson’s thinking on action and political groupings) to explore how these might inform an understanding of the Church’s telos or purpose. It concludes by arguing that Alasdair MacIntyre’s notion of universities as places of constrained disagreement might also be a good model for this telos.
The Sea Of Faith: After Dover Beach?, Vaughan S. Roberts
Jun 1997
The Sea Of Faith: After Dover Beach?, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
The metaphor of ‘the sea of faith’ comes from Matthew Arnold’s poem Dover Beach (1867) and has been explored subsequently by a number of theologians, notably Don Cupitt in his BBC TV series of the same name and the Sea of Faith Network founded to explore his ideas. This paper explores how the image of the sea functions in Arnold’s poem and his The Forsaken Merman before arguing that R. S. Thomas’s use of the sea in his poem Tidal provides a better theological metaphor than Arnold’s.
Umberto Eco And The "Habit" Of Family Communion, Vaughan S. Roberts
Dec 1988
Umberto Eco And The "Habit" Of Family Communion, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
This paper was written before the introduction of Common Worship by the Church of England and explores the effects of earlier liturgical changes upon that Church, in particular the move from non-Eucharist forms of worship (such as Mattins and Evensong) to more Eucharistically centred liturgy and argues for affirmation and encouragement of diversity in parish worship.
