ABSTRACT
This paper draws upon postcolonial studies in highlighting historic persons, places and trajectories of British Practical Theology. Reference is made to Daniels Ekarte, J. Michael Wilson and Ken Leech as exemplars of practical theology in Britain. Locating the city of Birmingham and the University of Birmingham specifically as the birthplace of an intercultural paradigm of pastoral care and counselling, mention is made of the inter-religious, multicultural and international environment in which this birthing took place.
A call is made for practical theologians to return to the rich heritage of multi-cultural and multi-religious thought and life out of which a vibrant practical theology emerges. Such practical theology holds in creative tension faith and life, theory and practice, and the private and public dimensions of communal life.
