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Practical Theology and Political Theology
Theology Today, 1985“It gets to the heart of what makes practical theology practical to be able to answer the question, ‘Where are we now?’… For a practical theology to be genuinely practical, it must have some description of the present situation, some critical theory about the ideal situation, and some understanding of the processes, spiritual forces, and technologies ...
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Practicing History, Practicing Theology
Horizons, 1998AbstractThis essay argues that “essentializing” history and theology is less useful as an approach to the problems of “faith” and “history” than a more piecemeal and pragmatic approach. It begins by invoking the intellectual virtues learned in communities of character.
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Academic Theology Centered on Practical Theology
Dialog, 2014AbstractThis article argues that there are considerable advantages for society, university, theology and the church to conduct theological research and education of pastors at a secular state university like the University of Copenhagen. The disadvantage is foremost that learning from a practice‐theory‐practice model is not found in theological ...
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Conversations in practical theology
Practical Theology, 2020If wonder is the beginning of seeking knowledge and wisdom, conversation is the means by which wonder is explored and adumbrated.
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Conundrums in practical theology
Practical Theology, 2017All those engaged in learning and teaching will have a system for organising books and resources of information.
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Practical Theology: from Applied to Empirical Theology
Journal of Empirical Theology, 1988AbstractIn this article the history of practical theology is reconstructed from the perspective of its main problem: the relation between theory and praxis. The first part refers to the academic status of practical theology, interpreted as applied theology. This interpretation fails to solve the problem, as we shall see.
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Practical Theology in Slovakia
International Journal of Practical Theology, 2017AbstractThis International Report on Practical Theology in Slovakia focuses on the case of practical theology in The Evangelical Church of Augsburg Confession in Slovakia, a religious minority in a mostly Roman Catholic country. Although the church dates to the Protestant Reformation, its understanding of practical theology is about one hundred years ...
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International Journal of Practical Theology, 2013
Abstract The command to pray invites believers to critically engage with their broken reality with a view of transforming it in the light of the new reality in which they participate in Christ. Practical theology, operating in the context of the bi-polar and tense relationship between theory and praxis, should be expanded to accommodate ...
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Abstract The command to pray invites believers to critically engage with their broken reality with a view of transforming it in the light of the new reality in which they participate in Christ. Practical theology, operating in the context of the bi-polar and tense relationship between theory and praxis, should be expanded to accommodate ...
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Is Practical Theology Possible?
Scottish Journal of Theology, 1972Some academic subject matters have a quaintly old-fashioned ring-‘moral sciences’ for example, or ‘natural philosophy’. ‘Practical theology’ has a similar odd sound today. To the theological outsider is must sound remarkably like a contradiction in terms, whilst to the professional theologian it may carry undertones of an unscholarly pragmatism or a ...
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A Practical Theology of “Welcoming”
American Journal of Pastoral Counseling, 2001Abstract This essay presents a model for welcoming sexually diverse persons, especially homosexuals, into the life of the Christian church. Particular attention is paid to the theology of the church and the necessity of conceiving of this issue within the dual doctrines of judgment and grace.
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