Practical theology

Practical theology is a well established since the 19th century and taught at the Universities of discipline of theology.

Nature and definition

The task of practical theology is the critical mediation between theological science and Christian practice in church and society. This programmatic definition is controversial in the history and present of this discipline. The controversy relates primarily to the question of its scientific status within theology and after their actual subject. As a scientific discipline, the practical theology emerged in the early 19th century. Practical theology is thus the youngest of the academic theological subjects. As its founder is commonly Friedrich Schleiermacher ( 1768-1834 ). Drive was the experience of the gap between an impractical theology and ecclesiastical- religious practice in which the scientific theology hardly had meaning.

As a go- between theory and practice practical theology should make a whole theology of experience open and relevant to action, the latter criterion usually came to the fore. Practical Theology was then understood as applying science to reformulate exegetical and dogmatic statements into practical instructions. Since Schleiermacher, Philipp Konrad Marheineke (1780-1846) and Karl Immanuel Nitzsch (1787-1868), in contrast, attempts to establish the intra- theological, theoretical function and necessity of practical theology. Currently you can see in the scientific analysis of the really lived Christian religiosity in the Church and society the special task of practical theology, which sees itself increasingly as an empirical-analytical science in analogy to the social and human sciences. The paradigmatic, epistemological orientation of Practical Theology ( phenomenological, theoretical, critical, empirical, hermeneutic ) still remains controversial. In contrast, the question of a description of its subject since the mid-19th century is relatively clear answer.

The crucial step of the sapientia ( = " insight", "Wisdom " ) to scientia ( = " knowledge ( company) ", " knowledge " - to: = scire " to know ", " understand ") was the overcoming of a more vocational ethically oriented" sapiential " pastoral theology. Other than these pastoral theology, which is limited to rules for the official leadership of the parish priest / pastor and the only ( valuable ) professional knowledge passed on from mentor to candidates, represents the practical theology a more comprehensive understanding of practice; debatable, however, is whether only the explicitly religious practice or the overall relationship between religion and social action should be the subject of practical theology. The specific subject area of practical theology can be explained by functions ( communication, education, counseling and support, management and organization ) and by their fields of action (worship, preaching, Kasualien, religious journalism, religion classes, confirmation classes, youth work, adult education, pastoral care, social welfare, community leadership, Church law) describe. Practical theology as an empirical science is working with the established methods of social research, with which psychology / depth psychology and hermeneutical method.

Subdisciplines

  • Homiletics
  • Liturgics
  • Pastoral / Pastoral Care
  • Pastoral Theology
  • Pastoral Psychology
  • Religious Education / Catechetics
  • Oikodomik
  • Diakonik

Teachers of practical theology

  • Doris Nauer ( Philosophical Theology Vallendar )
  • Sabine Bobert ( Christian -Albrechts -University of Kiel )
  • Corinna Dahlgrün ( Friedrich -Schiller- University Jena)
  • Wilfried Engemann (University of Vienna )
  • Wilhelm Gräb ( Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin)
  • Christian Grethlein (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität )
  • Grözinger Albrecht ( University of Basel)
  • Hans -Martin Gutmann ( University of Hamburg)
  • Michael Herbst (Ernst -Moritz- Arndt University of Greifswald)
  • January Hermelink (Georg -August- University of Göttingen)
  • Martin Nicol ( Friedrich- Alexander -University Erlangen- Nuremberg)
  • Uta Pohl Patalong ( Christian -Albrechts -University of Kiel )
  • Klaus Raschzok ( Augustana College Neuendettelsau )
  • Traugott Roser (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
  • Rolf Schieder ( Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin)
  • Reinhard Schmidt- Rost ( Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
  • Anne Frank-Walter Steinmeier ( Martin -Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg)
  • Helmut Schwier ( Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg)
  • Helge Stadelmann ( Free Theological College of casting )
  • Birgit Weyel ( University of Tübingen )
  • Peter Zimmer Ling ( University of Leipzig)
  • Holger Eschmann ( Reutlingen School of Theology )
  • Achim Härtner ( Reutlingen School of Theology )

Emeritus teachers of practical theology

  • Manfred Josuttis ( b. 1936 )
  • Ulrich Nembach ( b. 1935, Georg -August- University of Göttingen)
  • Ursula Riedel- Pfäfflin
  • Richard Riess ( born 1937 )
  • Joachim Scharfenberg
  • Paul Zulehner ( Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna / University of Vienna; b. 1939 )
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