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I have argued that "practical theology properly asks what one is to do in the particular situation in and for which one must here and now take responsibility if one is to actualize ... a Christian self-understanding" (On Theology: 97). But this understanding of practical theology is too narrow, focusing, as it does, solely on the prospective, or "constructive," as distinct from the retrospective, or "critical," role of practical theological reflection.

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