Polity and PRAXIS: A Program for American Practical Theology

by Charles R. Strain and Dennis P. McCann

The authors, though sympathetic to the schema proposed by the Liberation Theologists and sensitive to the demands of tradition, set themselves the task of outlining and defining a practical theology. They situate this theology squarely within the pluralistic tradition of North American reflection, rejecting Latin American and European models. They argue that practical theology is a distinct and limited genre grounded in the dialectic of theory and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819178470
• ISBN13: 9780819178473
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 252 Pages