Sentences with phrase «fundamental practical theology»

Otherwise, the dense interconnections of the branches of fundamental practical theology will be lost.

Don Browning's provocative study A Fundamental Practical Theology offers the most concerted account yet of how the churches» practice might organize theological inquiry as a whole.

To establish his claim, Browning reconceives the whole of theology as «fundamental practical theology.»

Browning's most important task in A Fundamental Practical Theology is to elaborate the inquiries that compose his fourth submovement, strategic practical theology.

Browning divides fundamental practical theology into four submovements: descriptive theology, historical theology, systematic theology and «strategic practical theology.»

My wish is that he had maintained more disciplined focus on his central project, the explication of fundamental practical theology, and that he had attended more patiently to the systematic and conceptual problems residing in that proposal.

Book Review: A Fundamental Practical Theology.

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Metz's practical fundamental theology «is a theology that operates subject to the primacy of praxis».22 This practice is informed by memory which leads to the imitation of Christ.

John Westerhoff in his Building God's People in a Materialistic Society (Seabury, 1983), after making the standard distinction between fundamental, systematic and practical theology, further differentiates practical theology into the liturgical, moral, spiritual, pastoral and catechetical.

When I wrote Blessed Rage for Order, I did state that even if the arguments for the public character of fundamental theology in that book were sound, those arguments could not determine the distinctive form of publicness proper to systematic theology or that proper to practical theology.

My own proposal on particular ways through which publicness occurs is to argue that there exist three major sub-disciplines constituting theology — viz., fundamental, systematic and practical theology.

A book on practical theology now preoccupies me in the same way that an earlier struggle for public criteria in fundamental theology concerned me in the early «70s and the struggle for criteria of meaning and truth in the disclosures of the beautiful and the holy in the classic works of art and religion preoccupied me in the late «70s.

And it isolated the specific regions of practical theology — pastoral care, religious education, homiletics, liturgics, etc. — from both fundamental and systematic theology on the one hand and critical engagement with world situations on the other.

I am relatively discouraged (although not despairing) about exactly how to take the next two steps: the development of a model for a Christian systematic theology that will be in continuity with, but also a genuine development upon, the earlier model for a revisionist fundamental theology; and the development of a model for a public Christian praxis (or practical theology) which will be in continuity with, but also a genuine development upon, both «fundamental» and «systematic» concerns.

Johann Baptist Metz, Faith in History and Society: Toward a Practical Fundamental Theology, trans.

The term «fundamental» underscores the point that every facet of theology, however specialized or esoteric it may appear to be, is finally practical in its import.

Metz is quite clear that his project of a practical fundamental theology is a radical development in theology.