This article attempts to frame the theology and teaching of Ann Loades within categories practical Christian education. After outlining author’s academic relationship with Loades, author analyses meaning phrase ‘practical theology’ some aspects debate surrounding term. He contends that Loades’s wide-ranging reflections on practices prayer spirituality, worship liturgy, ethics belonging may be r...

Fr. O'Rourke is professor of bioethics, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola I 'mra-sity Chicago; Fr. Kopfen steiner is associate professor, 'Lheo/ojjy Department, Lordham University, Bronx, NT; and Dr. Hatnel is senior director. Ethics, CHA. C atholics engaged in health care t h r o u g h o u t the centur ies have always sought to minister in the spirit of Christ and in accord with the reaching ...

Biologists view life as transient while theologians see it as eternal. An unbiased definition for life would respect both views until one or both were eliminated by evidence. This paper identifies pre-requisites for such a definition. First among these is that all assumptions be made explicit. Currently "life" is surrounded by implicit assumptions, e.g., that it is what organisms lose at death ...