| dc.description.abstract | At the Modern Church conference in February 2011 I gave a presentation on Contextual Bible Study, with reference to a research project I undertook with Revd Dr David Nixon at the University of Exeter in 2010. In this project we used Contextual Bible Study with a group of homeless and vulnerably-housed people at a soup kitchen in South-West England. The paper we wrote, which contains much of the same material as my Modern Church conference paper, was published in Expository Times 123.1 (October 2011), 12-19, and gives far more detail about the specificities of our project, as well as reproducing some of the excerpts from contributions by the homeless participants which I cited at the conference.
In this short piece, therefore, I will focus on the rationale behind Contextual Bible Study, and will then go on to give a short summary of the ways in which we deemed it both a useful and a problematic methodology for use with this particular group of people | en_GB |
