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 ? 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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