Richard Osmer, the four key tasks or questions to be asked by practical theology are:

# What is going on? (the descriptive-empirical task)
# Why is this going on? (the interpretative task)
# What ought to be going on? (the normative task)
# How might we respond? (the pragmatic task)

Definition

Gerben Heitink defines practical theology as "the empirically oriented theological theory of the mediation of the Christian faith in the praxis of modern society." Practical theology consists of several related

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