An Introduction to Practical Theology

Serious theology is systematic theology. Or so the story goes. Practical theology--with its focus on the church, its life and its practices--has sometimes been understood as the second order application of the  real work of academic theology. However, in this abridged translation of his magisterial Praktische Theologie , Christian Grethlein realizes the rigorous methodology, critical commitments, and expansive sweep of practical theology ​as both an academic and an