ABSTRACT
The objective of this book is to review and refine practical theology in the light of the contemporary context in which Christianity is operating. I will argue that one of the reasons why our responses are becoming inadequate is that we are using inappropriate and dated categories to understand and describe that context, and I will then offer alternatives to those drawing on other disciplines. Broadly speaking the best way of grasping these changes is under the heading of a family of concepts derived from the study of globalization. This is another of those terms that has now swept into academic discourse and suffers from over-exposure and under-theorization, so that will also be addressed at points in the argument.
