and definitively. Distinctions are still to be made, but these are differentiations within a common task rather than separate disciplines. My purpose in this book is threefold. First, I define more clearly the shape of practical theology as truly a theological enterprise rather than mere mastery of skills and methods. Second, I demonstrate the praxis of practical theology as critical engagement with the interface between the word of God as revealed through Scripture and the work of God taking place
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