Sentences with phrase «strategic practical theology»

Browning conveys the impression that his fourfold scheme has a logical and temporal order: first descriptive theology, then historical theology, next systematic theology, and finally, strategic practical theology.

Instead of Reinhold Niebuhr's Nature and Destiny of Man, the better model for an ethic pertinent to strategic practical theology might be H. Richard Niebuhr's The Responsible Self.

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.

He seeks instead to consider how inquiries appropriate to strategic practical theology may be related to one another.

For Browning, strategic practical theology is at its core an exercise in theological ethics.

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.»

Browning's purpose is to show how these general understanding might figure in strategic practical theology as well.

His case for a critical correlational theology would have been the stronger had he limited himself to its connections with strategic practical theology.

Second, strategic practical theology does not merely apply historical and systematic theology to practice.

Fifth, the human sciences can serve strategic practical theology only when they are reconceived as hermeneutical inquiries.

The general work of description leads finally to strategic practical theology.

Browning demonstrates his idea of strategic practical theology through analyses of three congregational studies.

Though dependent on the wider society, congregations themselves display economic, political, social and cultural dynamics that merit study in strategic practical theology.

The goal of strategic practical theology is to devise, and then to defend and communicate, specific recommendations for congregational ministries.

My intent is not to canonize Parsons's theory, but to note that he undertakes the systems - thinking that Browning's view of strategic practical theology may require.

Browning suggests their relation with a mixed image: theology is the «outer envelope» and ethics the «inner core» of strategic practical theology.

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