Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theology of relational care (2nd nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was redirect to Practical theology. Liz Read! Talk! 08:23, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Theology of relational care
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In 2013, this article was proposed for deletion and no consensus was reached. I'd like to re-open that discussion. Instead of simply deleting it, I think we ought to redirect this page to Practical theology, where there exists a comment on this particular topic. Although "relational care" in the general sense of "extending care through personal relationships" is an abstractly important idea, this article does not name a discrete concept or set of practices that is notable in itself. The phrase "theology of relational care" does not occur with any frequency in the popular or scholarly conversation. (A search for the phrase on the ATLA Religion Database, the most prominent database of scholarly literature on religion, returns zero results; and a search for the phrase on Google returns nothing but a few passing mentions.) Brian (talk) 18:04, 18 October 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 22:25, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. Skynxnex (talk) 18:29, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Further specifics: the ATLA Religion Database returns no hits for the full phrase; it returns three hits (with a few derivatives) for the broader phrase, "relational care." Of those three sources, one book and one article are plausibly concerned with a "theology of relational care," but have nothing clear to do with each another; the third is a book that doesn't deal with theology at all. Another book using the phrase pops up on Amazon that also doesn't deal with theology. The one place the full phrase appears in a non-trivial way is in a masters thesis, which is a decent source, but not enough to secure the clarity or notability of the concept. A Google search for the phrase turns up very nearly nothing—just some spam websites and a couple of trivial mentions.Brian (talk) 19:04, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I'd support the re-direct to Practical Theology.Swampyank (talk) 19:18, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. There doesn't seem to be enough to back this up as a significant topic of theological discussion under this name. I don't think there's enough even to justify a redirect. Jahaza (talk) 00:55, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Practical theology. Superficially, Pastoral theology sounds as if it would have been an appropriate merge target, but that is entirely a Catholic article, whereas the subject here ought not to be denominationally focused.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:02, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge a couple more sentences to the mention at Practical theology and then redirect. Not enough content and coverage for a standalone article imv Atlantic306 (talk) 17:09, 23 October 2022 (UTC) Changing to Redirect as the selective merge has taken place Atlantic306 (talk) 16:21, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Comment. I have integrated a few sentences from the theology of relational care article into the pastoral theology article., does that suffice to make your recommendation a redirect? —Brian (talk) 23:14, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I now support redirect, Atlantic306 (talk) 16:21, 26 October 2022 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.