Acknowledgements vii Prologue: Beginning at the End of the World ix Part One: The Changed Climate of Practical Theological Research 1 1 Research, Relationality and Relationships: New Ontologies in Critical Context 3 2 Knowing, Knowing What We Don’t Know and Being Mixed Up: Empiricism, Reflexivity and Representation 18 3 Borrowing, Gifting and Growing Together: Relations between Theology and Social Research Practices 37 Part Two: Practical Theology as Creative Work 67 4 The Poetics and Politics of Practical Theology 69 5 Reimagining Research as (Creative) Responsiveness 95 6 Theology as Art in Our Troubles 121 Part Three: Makings 147 7 Making One: A Theopoetics of Practice 149 8 Making Two: Heloise and Me, or, On Being a (Practical) Theologian 168 9 Making Three: Writings in the Disaster 183 Epilogue: Not a Conclusion but a Connection 190 Suggested Reading in Creative Research Methods 195 Bibliography 197