Practical Theology and Political Theology

Abstract

“It gets to the heart of what makes practical theology practical to be able to answer the question, ‘Where are we now?’… For a practical theology to be genuinely practical, it must have some description of the present situation, some critical theory about the ideal situation, and some understanding of the processes, spiritual forces, and technologies required to get from where we are to the future ideal, no matter how fragmentarily and incompletely that ideal can be realized.”