The practical and professional emphasis in the seminary has been in the direction of administration, social work, and ecclesiastical machinery rather than the practical discipline of the spiritual life. (religion-online.org)
Theology as a practical discipline does not invite fascination with the subjectivity of the believer, for its primary concern is how the self should be shaped to correspond to the object of religious language. (religion-online.org)
Theology understood as a practical discipline should not» be confused with those theologies that make the question of «faith» the starting point of theological reflection. (religion-online.org)