EDITORIAL: THEOLOGY AND PRACTICAL ACTION

Abstract

‘Theology’ as a word is basically about knowing God. After all, that is the etymological meaning of Theologos, ‘the study of God’. But one would completely get it wrong when one thinks of this kind of knowing in purely cognitive terms, as though knowing God could be restricted to some set of correct statements one makes about God. Studying and knowing God more profoundly inescapably leads to both love and worship. Knowledge, love, and worship are the inseparable triad of good theology. Thus, if theology deepens worship, then theology is inherently practical, that is, relevant to the everyday reality of being human.