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An Empirical Approach to Practical Theology
For citation
Zabaev Ivan (2012)
"An Empirical Approach to Practical Theology ",
Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Sviato-Tikhonovskogo gumanitarnogo universiteta.
Seriia I : Bogoslovie. Filosofiia,
2012,
vol. 43,
pp. 33-46 (in Russian).
Abstract
The terms «empirical theology» and «practical theology» are not widely employed in our country, and in most ecclesiastical and theological (and humanistic) schools, such subjects are not taught (most probably because their place is usurped by the teaching of pastoral theology). The aim of the author is to describe the principles of empirical theology based on the works of one of its foremost proponents — Jan van der Veen, who for several years was the dean of theological studies at the Catholic University of Nymegen (Netherlands).
Keywords
JAN VAN DER VEEN, PRACTICAL THEOLOGY, EMPIRICAL THEOLOGY, METHOD IN THEOLOGY, CONTEMPORARY CATHOLIC THEOLOGY