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Thesis Rests with Its Author University of Bath PHD Sensemaking, metaphor and mission in an Anglican context Roberts, Vaughan S Award date: 1999 Awarding institution: University of Bath Link to publication Alternative formats If you require this document in an alternative format, please contact: [email protected] General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 07. Oct. 2021 Sensemaking, Metaphor and Mission in an Anglican Context Submitted by Vaughan S Roberts for the degree of PhD of the University of Bath 1999 Attention is drawn to the fact that copyright of this thesis rests with its author. This copy of the thesis has been supplied on the condition that anyone who consults it is understood to recognise that its copyright rests with its author and that no quotation from the thesis and no information derived from it may be published without prior written consent of the author. This thesis may be made available for consultation within the University library and may be photocopied or lent to other libraries for the purposes of consultation. Sensemaking, Metaphor and Mission in an Anglican Context Contents Abstract:.....................................................................................................................5 Acknowledgements....................................................................................................7 Preface: On Method & Sensemaking.....................................................................8 Section 1: ‘Looking Under the Table’ Conversations about Epistemology .............41 1.1 Introduction...................................................................................................42 1.2 Epistemology & Modernity......................................................................43 1.2.1 Founders of Modernity............................................................................45 1.2.2 Theistic Responses ................................................................................50 1.2.3 Atheistic Responses ...............................................................................56 1.2.4 The Emergence of Positivism.................................................................64 1.2.5 Critiques of Positivism ............................................................................67 1.3 Epistemology & a Phenomenological Framework........................................76 1.3.1 Introduction.............................................................................................76 1.3.2 Phenomenological Frameworks .............................................................78 1.3.3 Ricoeur & Dialectical Self .......................................................................87 1.4 Towards the Church as an Embodied Gestalt..............................................90 1.4.1 Embodied Hermeneutics ........................................................................90 1.4.2 An Embodied Gestalt..............................................................................100 1.5 An Embodied Church ...................................................................................102 1.5.1 Summary ................................................................................................102 1.5.2 Conclusion: An Embodied Hermeneutic.................................................103 Section 2: ‘No Handles? No Doors’ Conversations about the Chaplaincy .............113 2.1 Introduction...................................................................................................114 2.2 Anglican Curate to University Chaplain........................................................116 2.3 Single Specification to Multiple Models ........................................................123 2.4 Missing Piece to Many Pieces......................................................................136 2.4.1 Reframing the UCCF Doctrinal Basis.....................................................138 2.4.2 Missing Piece..........................................................................................144 2.4.3 Towards the Chaplaincy as an Embodied Gestalt .................................151 2.5 The Link With Christ Church ........................................................................153 2.6 Conclusion....................................................................................................157 2 Section 3: ‘Apart or A Part’ Conversations about Christ Church .......................160 3.1 Introduction...................................................................................................161 3.2 Of Schemes & Schism .................................................................................165 3.2.1 The Team Scheme Proposals................................................................166 3.2.2 The Dispute Over Patronage..................................................................172 3.3 Of Schools & Solutions.................................................................................177 3.3.1 Christ Church & Education .....................................................................177 3.3.2 The People’s Ministry .............................................................................179 3.4 Of Parishes & Proposals: The ‘Lost’ Story ...................................................183 3.4.1 The Early Period (1795-1822) ................................................................187 3.4.2 The Middle Period (1840-1901)..............................................................190 3.4.3 The Later Period (1942-55) ....................................................................194 3.4.4 Summary & Responses..........................................................................197 3.5 Of Links & Lay Assistants.............................................................................200 3.5.1 Introduction.............................................................................................200 3.5.2 Getting Started .......................................................................................202 3.5.3 Possible Partners ...................................................................................204 3.5.4 An Alternative Partnership......................................................................207 3.4.5 Conclusion..............................................................................................209 3.6 Conclusion: Towards Embodiment...............................................................210 Section 4:Conversations about the Origin of the Church .........................................212 4.1 Introduction...................................................................................................213 4.2 Jesus & The Body ........................................................................................216 4.2.1 A Summary of Jesus’ Life.......................................................................219 4.2.2 Holiness, Food & Jesus’ Body................................................................219 4.2.3 An Embodied Summary of Jesus’ Death................................................223 4.3 Paul & The Body ..........................................................................................226 4.3.1 Introduction.............................................................................................226 4.3.2 The Body of Christ in 1 Corinthians........................................................227 4.3.3 A Summary of Paul & The Body.............................................................238 4.4 Embodied Dialectic.......................................................................................239 Section 5: Conversations about Authority in the Church ...................................242 5.1 Introduction...................................................................................................243 5.2 Embodiment & Authority in The Church .......................................................244 5.2.1 Introduction.............................................................................................244 5.2.2 ‘Story’: Stephen W. Sykes & Power in the Church.................................248 5.2.3 ‘Counterstory’: Richard H. Roberts& Power in the Church ....................253 5.2.4 ‘Nonstory’: Stephen Moore & Power in the Church................................258 5.2.5 Towards An Embodied Small-m metanarrative......................................260 3 5.3 The Body in Question...................................................................................263 5.3.1 Introduction.............................................................................................263 5.3.2 The Chaplaincy as an Embodied Gestalt ...............................................267 5.3.3 Christ Church as an Embodied Gestalt ..................................................280
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