ABSTRACT
This jointly written article is based closely on a presentation given by the authors at the BIAPT conference in 2015. The theme of the conference was ‘Faith in the Public Space: Practical Theology and The Common Good’. These two theologians, neither of them self-identifying as ‘practical theologians, were invited to open our conference with a discussion of the importance of the Bible to our deliberations. What resulted was a discussion of the ‘common good’ shaped by a wide consideration of practice identified in biblical and other historical contexts.
