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  • Introduction
    • 1. How to use this Resource
    • 2. About the Author
    • 3. Map of Website
    • 4. Acknowledgements
    • 5. Bibliography
  • Nature of Chaplaincy
    • 1. Being New
      • i. The experience of being new
      • ii. Questions to ask when new
    • 2. Shape of Chaplaincy
      • i. Why be a (church) university chaplain?
      • ii. On the edge?
      • iii. Freedom vs structural integration
      • iv. Inter-relationship between long-term vision and episodic opportunity
      • v. Summer pilgrimage (time away together)
      • vi. Working with the Christian Union
      • vii. The question of numbers
      • viii. Widening the team
      • ix. Chaplaincy as advanced outpost of the Church?
    • 3. Presence
      • i. Theology & presence
      • ii. Forms of presence
      • iii. Working at presence
    • 4. Role of the Chapel
      • i. The purpose of the chapel
      • ii. The power of liturgy
      • iii. Relationship between the explicit and the implicit
      • iv. Kingdom, Church and world
    • 5. Living with Limits
      • i. Living with what’s possible
      • ii. Living without certainty
      • iii. The danger of self-justification
      • iv. The inevitability of change
    • 6. Resourcing oneself
      • i. Sustaining oneself
      • ii. Facing times of doubt
      • iii. Imaging chaplaincy: an exercise
      • iv. Chaplaincy review
    • 7. Pastoral Engagement
      • i. The purpose of pastoral ministry
      • ii. The power of good questions
      • iii. Speaking the truth
      • iv. Reaching the ‘hidden students’
  • Identity
    • 1. The Nature of Identity
      • i. Continuity of identity
    • 2. Anglican Identity
      • i. Identity and boundary
      • ii. Anglican identity as process
      • iii. Anglican identity characteristics and chaplaincy
      • iv. Chaplain as public Anglican symbol
      • v. Relation to institutional Christianity
      • vi. Promoting Anglican ‘brand loyalty’?
    • 3. Identity-Relevance Dilemma
      • i. The identity-relevance dilemma unfolded
      • ii. ‘So what do you do?’
  • Kingdom of God Theology
    • 1. The Kingdom of God
      • i. Why think about the Kingdom of God?
      • ii. What is the Kingdom of God?
      • iii. Can we bring about the Kingdom?
    • 2. Interpretation Matters
      • i. Interpretation and reality
      • ii. Imagination and interpretation
      • iii. Awakening the symbolic
    • 3. Priority of Gift
      • i. Gift or performance?
      • ii. Completion: tyranny or promise?
      • iii. Life against death
      • iv. Narrative as gift
  • Mission & Contemporary Context
    • 1. Mission
      • i. What is mission?
      • ii. The cost of mission
      • iii. Chaplaincy as mission
    • 2. Contemporary context
      • i. Universities: places of permanent revolution?
      • ii. Dialogue with contemporary student culture
    • 3. Vocation
      • i. The vocation to salvation
      • ii. Vocation and creation
      • iii. Callings
    • 4. Hidden Christians
      • i. Types of student christian
      • ii. Engaging the ‘hidden christians’
    • 5. The Secular
      • i. Rethinking the secular
    • 6. The Spiritual
      • i. Defining the ‘spiritual’
      • ii. Working with the spiritual
      • iii. The limits of the spiritual
      • iv. The value of an ‘associateship programme’
    • 7. Equality
      • i. The problem with ‘inclusivity’
      • ii. What is fair?
      • iii. The basis of equality
      • iv. Defending a theological account of equality
      • v. Equality and ‘the market’
    • 8. Other Faiths & Beliefs
      • i. Opening up the Christian tradition from within to other voices
      • ii. Mission and other faiths
      • iii. Working with other faiths
    • 9. Sustainability
      • i. Crisis of values
      • ii. Economic vs. sustainable language: an opportunity for chaplaincy
  • Education
    • 1. Enacting the core purpose
    • 2. Education and identity formation
    • 3. Tourist or pilgrim?
    • 4. Education and the consumer society
    • 5. Education as conversation
  • Chaplains on Campus: Understanding Chaplaincy in UK Universities
    • 1. Who are today’s university chaplains?
    • 2. What is the purpose of chaplaincy? Do perceptions differ, and with what consequences?
    • 3. What role do chaplains play in universities?
    • 4. How do chaplains relate to others in their universities?
    • 5. What relationships do chaplains have with contexts outside the university? How do these influence their work?
    • 6. How is chaplaincy responding to an increasingly multi-faith environment?
    • 7. How is university chaplaincy equipped and resourced?
    • 8. Is chaplaincy effective? If so, in what ways?
    • 9. Does chaplaincy differ by type of university? Are Cathedrals Group universities – the only group united by affirming a Christian ethos – distinctive, and in what ways?
    • 10. What resources can theology offer? How can chaplains understand their work theologically?
    • 11. Recommendations

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Nature of Chaplaincy

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  1. Living with what’s possible
  2. Living without certainty
  3. The danger of self-justification
  4. The inevitability of change
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