Practical Theology

The Nature of Practical Theology Repeating Transformation: Browning and Barth on Practical Theology

Three levels of Practical Theology experiential, reflective and orientational, must address the pursuit of practical Christian knowledge. Each level contributes to the formation of operational practical Christian knowledge as evaluating, ordering, localising and organising. Browning's correlational approach is criticised for leading to religious rather than Christian dynamic reflection. Barth's...

Lived religion The praxis of practical theology

Taking the case of ‘spiritual gardening’ as a starting point, this paper reflects on praxis as the object of practical theology. Praxis is understood as the domain of lived religion and focuses on what people do rather than on official institutionalized religious traditions. Praxis refers to fields of practices like care or community building and to the patterned configurations of action, exper...

Toward a Practical Theology of Peer Review

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A postfoundAtionAlist reseArch pArAdigm of prActicAl theology

Practical theology describes a context, interprets what has been discovered, brings in Christian norms, and constructs models of Christian practice. It is a process that involves epistemology and hermeneutics. For practical theology to be transformative, a postfoundational theological framework that allows interdisciplinary work and interpretation of experience in a given context is essential. ...

Review of Richard Osmer, Practical Theology: An Introduction