Sentences with phrase «contemporary practical theology»

Contemporary practical theology is thus more than the «application» of theological concepts to one social situation or another.

Not exact matches

What practical theology must provide is an understanding of how faith can guide action in contemporary circumstances.

The current interest in practical theology may be seen as a return to the earlier effort to develop a comprehensive, integrated understanding of the life of faith in contemporary society.

As much as this ethic is needed, as much as we are all indebted to the new clarifications which have come from the contemporary ethics of virtue and character, and as much as we must never lose its accomplishments, the new practical theologies must strive for something more rigorous.

I make that unhappy admission not just because I still do not know my own mind clearly and systematically enough about four central issues of that practical theology task — contemporary social theory, ethics, ecclesiology and the history of spirituality.