Sentences with phrase «dimensions of practical theology»
Likewise, the ethical dimensions of practical theology would have been more persuasively developed had their integral relation with the communal life of congregations first been fully established.
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Equally important, the two foci of each dimension of practical theology — one in the church and one in the world — help to encourage a dialectical relationship between the Christian faith community and other perspectives and efforts to shape our common life.
Certainly, each dimension of practical theology is expressed in each of the others.
Not exact matches
Boulton, the president of Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, spends the bulk of his book «rereading» the Institutes with a focus on the practical dimensions of Calvin's theology.
Practical theology — theology that is addressed to the lives of communities and grows out of the lives of communities, theology that is done for the sake of a way of life — is a growing, exciting dimension of theological studies.
Before I had any content for the title, I thought of myself as a practical theologian whose function it was to integrate theology and the various dimensions of ministry as they relate to church and society.
While I recall reading about the post-Schleiermacher tendency to understand practical theology as made up of numerous dimensions — the liturgical, moral, pastoral, spiritual, ecclesial and catechetical — within a clerical paradigm, I experienced it as a number of nonintegrated, specific disciplines of ministerial studies separated from other isolated disciplines dispersed throughout a confused theological curriculum.
As such, practical theology is composed of six dimensions.
Theology, as I studied it in the 1960's, was narrowly defined to exclude the practical and intellectual dimensions of race.
The reader is invited, then, to consider five «dimensions» or «levels» of inquiry pertinent to strategic practical theology: vision, obligation, tendency / need, environmental / social and rule / role.