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We act toward the future and are, within limits, responsible for it, even as the only meaning of our action and its only justification is its contribution to the future.

But we act in the present.

Consequently, it is misleading to say, as I have sometimes said, that practical studies generally, and, therefore, practical theology in particular, have to do with the future, even as historical studies have to do with the past, and systematic studies have to do with the (i.e., every) present.

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