Sentences with phrase «within practical theology»

The Valparaiso Project is now in the process of becoming much more explicit about how our work is situated within practical theology and what its implications are for ministry.

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

Schleiermacher himself suggested that mission study should be included within Practical Theology.

Not exact matches

One of the practical theological tensions within reformed churches has been between the literate - based academic theology of the clergy and the largely oral practical theology of the people.

Professor David Wilkinson, Professor of Theology, Principal of St John's College, Durham University, said: «CODEC is unique in combining research on the digital environment within a world class University with practical outputs to serve the Church.

If theology is to regain its status as a significant intellectual and practical activity within the church, the university and our broader cultural and public life, then seminaries and divinity schools will have to give renewed attention to this venerable but threatened discipline.

Practical theology, emerging out of life in a faith community, is a doxological mode of reflection that, by placing itself within the context of the church's service to God, attempts to facilitate the goal of a faithful life in the present on behalf of God's future.

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.