Sentences with phrase «practical theology from»

The emphasis on description prevents practical theology from being reduced merely to an exercise of application — application to practice of the results of historical and systematic theology.

Not exact matches

This vision of doxological theology is at odds with the standard fourfold division of seminary education in the West, which keeps «Bible,» «church history,» «theology» and «practical ministry» cordoned off from one another, For the Orthodox, theology is simply commentary upon the saints» commentary on scripture for the sake of the church's worship.

The author works from the premise that all theology must be practical theology in that it must enable individual faith to be effectively connected to social context.

His reading revealed that the field to which these works are assigned — variously designated «practical theology,» «church studies,» or «ministry studies» — is very diverse and imports much from the human sciences.

The final feature of this work is to reflect theologically on different experiences of death according to a set structure: (1) an experience is presented using a case format; (2) the dominant theological questions raised by the case are identified; (3) the response of a typical theology of death is presented, and a response drawn from relational thought is presented; (4) practical implications are suggested.

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.

From its inception in 1879, the Church of Christ, Scientist has had but one agenda: the practical implementing of a theology in which the healing of sin is primary and the healing of disease indispensable.

I understand theology to be a practical discipline — not in the sense that theology is concerned to provide solutions to particular problems, but in the sense that the grammar of Christian discourse takes its cue from the ways in which lives are formed.

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.

Black theology has little practical value apart from the black church because liberation can not be achieved without the church.

Wood especially stresses the importance of resources from the social sciences that practical theology brings into play in envisioning Christian witness as a whole:

These final essays are written from the perspective of practical studies, namely, pastoral care, Christian ethics and feminist liberation theology.

In the process of giving theology a practical expression he shaped a distinctively American social ethic that dominated Protestant thought in America from the close of World War I to the widening of the war in Viet Nam.

By shifting attention from Enlightenment questions of credibility to postmodern questions of practical effect, radical theology has accomplished a great deal.

At one point, he stated that he is writing from a position of practical concern, which is where all questions of theology should come from:

But I suggest this is the problem with much Christian practical theology today: it separates serving God from serving the person.

The moral concern was taken from the practical field, and subsumed under systematic theology, creating a new field of theology and ethics.

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.

Just as important, this standard curriculum eliminates theology from the core of both practical and academic studies.

Kelly's summary of the trends in the curriculum of Oberlin Seminary applies to many others as well: «The program of study was changing from the dogmatic to the practical, from the ecclesiocentric to the socio - centric... «34 More recent examinations show the continuation of these emphases in our time though they also show a revival of interest in systematic and exegetical theology and in the Biblical languages.

No doubt it failed finally for the same reason it lasted as long as it did, because it was a theology, gigantic and rigid and intricate, taking authority from its disciplines and its hierarchies even while they rendered it fantastically ill suited to the practical business of understanding and managing an economy.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

The character of theological education follows from the nature of professional church leadership as «practical theology» since the unifying goal of theological schooling is to educate such leadership.

in addition, Emory's graduate program in religion is conducted in a strong and hard - won interfaith environment, and any attempt to tilt the program toward an overemphasis on Christian practical theology would be greeted with a healthy suspicion and resistance from many religion professors.

This book, however, is not just a book which discusses Christian theology, but is a practical guide for parenting children from infancy to adolescence.