Cover -- The Challenge of Practical Theology: Selected Essays -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Making of Practical Theology -- Part 1 Ethics and Values in Practice -- Introduction -- 1. Questioning Values -- 2. The Trouble with Values -- 3. Are Professional Codes Ethical? -- 4. The Value of Ethics -- Part 2 On Organisation and Management -- Introduction -- 5. Recognizing Leaders' Hidden Beliefs -- 6. Faithful Management or Managing the Faithful? -- 7. Some Objections to Aims and Objectives -- 8. Organisational Spirituality: An Exploration -- Part 3 On Christian Practice and Opportunities: A Critique -- Introduction -- 9. Healing: A Flight from Definition -- 10. Dumbing down the Spirit -- 11. To the Churches with Love from the Lighthouse -- 12. Frustrated with Sex: Some Observations on Christian Approaches to the Ethics of Sex and Sexuality -- 13. 'Suffer Little Children': The Challenge of Child Abuse and Neglect to Theology -- 14. Mend the Gap: Christianity and the Emotions -- Part 4 On Theology and the Christian Tradition -- Introduction -- 15. Can we Speak of God in the Secular Academy? Or, Need Theology be so Useless? -- 16. Public Theology: A Polemical Epilogue -- 17. The Shadow Side of Jesus -- Part 5 On Pastoral and Practical Theology -- Introduction -- 18. Pastoral Studies: Dust Bin or Discipline? -- 19. The Use of Behavioural Sciences in Pastoral Studies -- 20. Practical Theology: Art or Science? -- Stephen Pattison: Principal Publications 1980-2005 -- Subject Index -- Author Index.