ABSTRACT
As an explicitly ecclesiological work, this book has made claims concerning its contribution to the theology of church (chapter 12); however, the methodology set out in chapter 4, and the practice of writing the book, suggests that there are more widely relevant learnings for the practices of theology as such. After some critical reflections on the nature of theology, and particularly on the place of practice in it, the chapter sets out to develop the ideas of a ‘practical fundamental theology’ hinted at in chapter 4, influenced especially by the work of Johann Baptist Metz. A brief second section then describes the practical problems encountered in actually attempting to write and think such a theology as is envisaged, concluding that the nature of theology today must be one of conversation, humility and trust in God’s ‘interruptions’.
