Abstract
The article claims that PT needs to change as a discipline in three directions. First, we cannot longer lump every person in our category of religion based on the normative conceptions of our own (Christian) religion. We need criteria to distinguish between normal experiences, spiritual experience and religious experience. Secondly, the process of opening up the material object of PT has decentred the (all-knowing) theological scholar who builds theory on lived spirituality and / or religion. Thirdly, we need to develop a new form of methodology to build theory on practical reasoning, namely practice-oriented methodology.
Zusammenfassung
Dieser Beitrag fordert eine Entwicklung der Praktischen Theologie als wissenschaftlicher Disziplin in drei Hinsichten. Erstens kann die Praktische Theologie nicht länger alle Formen menschlicher Bedeutungskonstruktionen normativ als „Religion“ benennen. Zweitens hat der Erweiterungsprozess des materiales Objekt der Praktischen Theologie in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten gleichzeitig auch die Dezentrierung des all-wissenden theologischen Subjekt der Kenntnis verursacht. Drittens muss die Praktische Theologie eine neue empirische Methodologie entwickeln, die Theorien auf der Basis von praktisch-religiöser Kenntnis entwickelt. Einen solchen Ansatz nennt der Verfasser praktisch-orientierte Methodologie.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Vorwort
- Research Articles
- Prospects for a Buddhist Practical Theology
- Praktische Theologie und Religionspädagogik
- Opportunities After Babel
- Grenzen der Sinngebung
- IATP-Panel 2013: Theory and Methodology of Praxis in Pratical Theology
- Theory and methodology of praxis in Practical Theology: Introduction to the Panel
- Lived religion: the praxis of Practical Theology
- Practical Theology as a Theory of Lived Religion Conceptualizing Church Leadership
- From Practical Theology to Practice-oriented Theology
- Theological Analysis of Religious Practices
- Professional Praxis in Practical Theology: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
- Practical Theology as a hermeneutical science of lived religion
- Reviews
- Reviews
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Vorwort
- Research Articles
- Prospects for a Buddhist Practical Theology
- Praktische Theologie und Religionspädagogik
- Opportunities After Babel
- Grenzen der Sinngebung
- IATP-Panel 2013: Theory and Methodology of Praxis in Pratical Theology
- Theory and methodology of praxis in Practical Theology: Introduction to the Panel
- Lived religion: the praxis of Practical Theology
- Practical Theology as a Theory of Lived Religion Conceptualizing Church Leadership
- From Practical Theology to Practice-oriented Theology
- Theological Analysis of Religious Practices
- Professional Praxis in Practical Theology: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
- Practical Theology as a hermeneutical science of lived religion
- Reviews
- Reviews