Practical Theology and Theological Education: Some Models and Questions

Abstract

“Somewhere Herbert Finagarette once wrote, ‘One day I saw, in a way that mattered, that the task is not to write the program, but to execute it.’… The way forward in practical theology involves placing more radical trust in God's self-disclosure and promises found in our traditions of revelation; more radical investment in concrete, existential-social-historical action in anticipation of the in-breaking Commonwealth of Love; and a more radical engagement, through present action and prayer, to make us partners in God's work of creation, governance, and liberation/redemption.”