Baker, Christopher T. H.Watson, Derrick L.2017-08-222017-08-222017-06Watson, D. L. (2017). Poietic Hermeneutics: Making local paths (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Chester, United Kingdom.http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620601This thesis argues for poietic hermeneutics as a work of gathering and re-siting which intervenes in the local material-discursive site. This is an interruptive tactic of the local church, seeking the flourishing of here through transitory, non-hegemonic acts of re-making. In developing this tactic I draw a critique of a practical theology discourse which, I argue, masks acts of making, with a consequent loss of attentiveness to materiality and a normative commitment to the development of practices internal to the church and the practitioner.enPoietic hermeneuticsTheologyThesis or dissertation2019-07-18Future publication of the thesis is plannedThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes provided that: - A full bibliographic reference is made to the original source - A link is made to the metadata record in ChesterRep - The full-text is not changed in any way - The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. - For more information please email researchsupport.lis@chester.ac.uk