Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-305) and index.

Introduction : a theobiographical starting point -- Setting the terrain : what is practical theology, anyway? -- Concrete lived cases of ministerial encounter with divine action -- Dominant models of practical theology -- A Christopraxis practical theology of the cross -- Practical theology into nothingness : exploring Ju||ngel, justification, and creation ex nihilo -- The concurring of the divine with the human : participation, personhood, and the concursus Dei in a Christopraxis practical theology -- Critical realism and practical theology -- Human action -- Interdisciplinarity : toward ministerial transveral rationality.