Theology Through Creative Practice
Engagements with the Work of Heather Walton
Edited by Doug Gay, Alison Jasper & David Jasper with contributions from Pamela D. Couture, Fiona Darroch, Elaine Graham, et al.

Description
Heather Walton’s highly imaginative approach to theological thinking has led to significant developments in the field of autoethnography, creative writing within theology and theology through creative practice. Her theological work is rooted in deep engagement with lived experience. Over her thirty years in the University of Glasgow she has been a leading figure in the fields of literature, theology and the arts, practical theology, and most recently theology through creative practice.
The chapters in this book reflect the remarkable range of her teaching and writing, her gift for new discoveries in religious reflection and her brave and deep humanity in the face of our present chaos in the world. Colleagues and former students celebrate and engage with her work through reflections, poetry, and chapters about practical theology, ecology, theopoetics, feminist theology and postcolonial literature.
Contributors
Doug Gay (editor)
Doug Gay is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Glasgow.
Alison Jasper (editor)

Alison Jasper was Senior Lecturer in Religion and Feminist Studies at the University of Stirling. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Glasgow. Her recent publications include Because of Beauvoir: Christianity and the Cultivation of Female Genius (Baylor, 2013). She has served on the Liturgy Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church.
David Jasper (editor)

David Jasper is Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow, where he was for many years Professor of Theology and Literature. He has also taught in universities in China, Australia and the USA. He holds degrees from the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and Uppsala. He has been an Anglican...
Pamela D. Couture (author)
Pamela D. Couture, before her retirement in 2023, held the Geoffrey and Jane Martin Chair in Church and Community at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. She has been Executive Director of the Toronto School of Theology.
Fiona Darroch (author)
Fiona Darroch is a lecturer in Religion at the University of Stirling and editorial board member for the journal Literature and Theology (Oxford University Press). She works in the field of postcolonial literature, critical religion and gender theory.
Elaine Graham (author)
Elaine Graham is Professor Emerita of Practical Theology at the University of Chester and author of a number of works including Transforming Practice (1996), Representations of the Post/Human (2002), and with Heather Walton and Frances Ward, Theological Reflection: Methods (2nd edn, 2018). In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of...
Simon Hallonsten (author)
Simon Hallonsten is a Lecturer in Practical Theology at University College Stockholm and the Coordinator for the Center for Theology, Ecology, and Culture. His research in Christian religious education integrates participatory action research with creative methodologies, aiming to explore new approaches to continuous formation and theological engagement.
Andrew W. Hass (author)
Andrew W. Hass is Reader in Religion at the University of Stirling. His interests and publications operate at the intersection of religion, philosophy, theology, literature and art, with particular interest in the idea of negation and German Idealism. His latest book is the co-authored The Music of Theology: Language—Space—Silence (Routledge,...
Tone Stangeland Kaufman (author)

Tone Stangeland Kaufman is Professor of Practical Theology at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society and Visiting Professor at University College Stockholm. She is also chief editor of the ecclesial journal Luthersk Kirketidende. Her publications and research interests include spirituality, homiletics, ecclesiology, youth ministry and disciplinary and methodological...
Callid Keefe-Perry (author)

Callid Keefe-Perry is Assistant Professor of Contextual Education and Public Theology at Boston College’s Clough School of Theology and Ministry.
Bonnie Miller-McLemore (author)
Bonnie Miller-McLemore is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture Emerita at the Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. She was also a Henry Luce Fellow for the year 1999–2000 and a resident scholar at the Collegeville Institute in...
Pádraig Ó Tuama (author)

Pádraig Ó Tuama is an Irish poet, theologian and conflict mediator. Photo: U.S. Institute of Peace (CC BY 2.0)
Wren Radford (author)
Wren Radford is a theologian engaged in developing creative and collaborative projects with community groups around experiences of inequality and justice. Based at the University of Manchester, they publish and teach on research methodologies, liberative theologies, and literature and theology.
Anthony Reddie (author)
Anthony Reddie is Professor of Black Theology in the University of Oxford, where he is also Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture. He is also Extraordinary Professor and Research Fellow in Theological Ethics at the University of South Africa.
Nicola Slee (author)

Nicola Slee is Professorial Research Fellow at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Professor of Feminist Practical Theology at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Visiting Professor at the University of Chester and a Visiting Scholar at Sarum College. She has published widely over four decades in the fields of feminist theology...
Frances Ward (author)

Frances Ward is a freelance theologian, researcher and writer, preacher, speaker and teacher. She is half-time Priest in Charge of St Michael's and St John's Churches in Workington, Cumbria. From 2010–2017 she was the Dean of St Edmundsbury in Suffolk, a member of the General Synod and a Trustee of...
Ariel Zinder (author)

Ariel Zinder is a senior lecturer in the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University. His primary research interest is medieval Hebrew liturgical poetry. Zinder is a published poet and translator. He has published three volumes of poetry, as well as translations of Shakespeare’s sonnets and Seamus Heaney’s poetry into...
