Sentences with phrase «practical theology made»

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To make the congregation a central concern for theological education, we need a new pedagogical strategy that assumes that theology is a form of practical knowledge.

Unlike Wood's scheme, this one does not make a point of separating «moral theology» as a distinct inquiry in its own right; here it is a mode of «critical practical theology.»

Wendy is the author of Practical Theology for Women: How Knowing God Makes a Difference in Our Daily Lives, and she spent four years teaching theology to women at Mars Hill Church in Theology for Women: How Knowing God Makes a Difference in Our Daily Lives, and she spent four years teaching theology to women at Mars Hill Church in theology to women at Mars Hill Church in Seattle.

In these pages I will (1) provide an overview of communication scholarship trends, (2) offer some reflections concerning the impact of new technologies that promote human interaction and cooperative alliances, and (3) make some practical suggestions that can enrich our communication - theology integration.

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.

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.

I am making the stronger claim, for which I am indebted to Julian Hartt, that ethics is at the heart of theology because the grammar of Christian discourse is fundamentally practical.

Although he suggested that it be included within Practical Theology, Schleiermacher made his detailed treatment of mission study in his section on ethics.

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.

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.

Although my thinking is inspired by the seminal work Practical Theology: The Emerging Field in Theology, Church, and World, edited by Don Browning (Harper & Row, 1983), my thoughts essentially are an attempt to make sense of what I do, and thereby add one more opinion to the important effort to reform and renew theological education.

Conceptual weaknesses begin to appear, however, in his exposition of the inquiries that make up strategic practical theology.

Perhaps American religion's recent conservative shift has so affected the mood of the schools that denominational seminaries must now battle just to hold on to the gains made in the 1950s and «60s (such as commitments to practical theology, to historical - critical hermeneutics and to revisioning traditional dogmatics).

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.

About Blog Living Theologically makes theology practical and understandable for the normal Christian who loves Jesus and the gospel but hasn't formally studied doctrine.

About Blog Living Theologically makes theology practical and understandable for the normal Christian who loves Jesus and the gospel but hasn't formally studied doctrine.

About Blog Living Theologically makes theology practical and understandable for the normal Christian who loves Jesus and the gospel but hasn't formally studied doctrine.