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 //Many students who apply to the Ph.D. program in Practical Theology may be curious as to how the study of practical theology is understood within the School of Theology and Ministry of St. Thomas University. This list has been created to assist applicants. All those who have been accepted to the program are expected to have read all or some of the texts below, as indicated, before commencing their studies in the Ph.D. program. Those who have already begun the program are encouraged to review these texts throughout their studies. //  //The doctoral faculty has selected these seminal texts because they aid the student in approaching practical theology for the first time, are critical for understanding the contemporary conversation in practical theology, and illustrate the particular focus that the School takes with regard to practical theology. //  //The list below is limited to book-length works. A core foundational text that is not a book-length work and which is recommended before approaching any of these texts is the document of the __Second Vatican Council,__ //__Gaudium et Spes //(Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World).// __// It is available on many websites in many translations. //  Stephen C. Bevans, SVD. 2004. [1992.] //Models of Contextual Theology.// Revised and expanded edition. Maryknoll: Orbis. ISBN: 978-1570754388  Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ. 2007. //Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God.// New York: Continuum. ISBN: 978-0826417701  Richard R. Osmer. 2008. //Practical Theology: An Introduction.// Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. ISBN: 978-0802817655  Don S. Browning. 1995. //A Fundamental Practical Theology: Descriptive and Strategic Proposals.// Minneapolis: Fortress Press. ISBN: 978-0800629731 <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rebecca Chopp. 2007 [1986.]. //The Praxis of Suffering: An Interpretation of Liberation and Political Theologies.// Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock. ISBN: 978-1556352782 <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Johann Baptist Metz. 2007 [1986.] //Faith in History and Society: Toward a Practical Fundamental Theology.// New translation by J. Matthew Ashley. New York: Crossroad. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISBN: <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 978-0824525545 <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">David Tracy. 1996. [1975.] //Blessed Rage for Order: the New Pluralism in Theology.// Chicago: University of Chicago Press. **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">ISBN-13: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> 978-0226811291 **__<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">OR __**<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> David Tracy.1998. [1981.] //The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism.// New York: Crossroad. **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">ISBN-13: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> 978-0824506940 <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Style Guides ** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The faculty recommend the Chicago Manual of Style as presented in: <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kate L. Turabian, 2007, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses and Dissertations. [Seventh Edition, revised by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams.] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82337-9. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Should a student find it preferable, APA style is acceptable as an alternative: <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">American Psychological Association, 2009, Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Sixth Edition. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Other texts especially recommended for writing style: <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lucretia B. Yaghjian, 2008, Writing Theology Well: A Rhetoric for Theological and Biblical Writers. New York: Continuum. ISBN: 978-0-826-418882-2. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Robert W. Pazmino. 2009. Doing Theological Research: An Introductory Guide for Survival in Theological Education. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock. ISBN: 978-1-60608-939-2.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Core Reading List for Applicants and Newly Admitted Students **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Group I (Students need to read all three before commencing studies.) **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Group II (Students need to read at least two entries before commencing studies.) **