Abstract
The necessity of reckoning withmetatheoretical assumptions in scientific practical-theological research This article is the first in the research project “Metatheoretical assumptions in Practical Theology”. The research problem has to do with the lack of explicitexpression of metatheoretical assumptions against the background of a plurality in scientific approaches to the discipline. Sometimes researchers do not explicity state their theological and other approaches. In this project a group of reformed practical theologians explicitly state their metatheoretical theological and other perspectives and explain their vantage points inresearching the praxis. The necessity to explain metatheoretical assumptions pertaining to the assumptions about reality, the hermeneutical process in understanding, explaining and changing actions in praxis, and the nature and task of scientificresearch, is discussed from a reformed perspective.
Highlights
Hierdie artikel is die eerste resultaat van die navorsingsprojek “Metateoretiese vertrekpunte in Praktiese Teologie”
Die probleem wat ondersoek word, het te make met ’n gebrek aan deursigtigheid met betrekking tot die uitspel van metateoretiese vertrekpunte teen die agtergrond van die pluraliteit in die benaderings tot die navorsing in die vak
In die hermeneutiese proses moet daar interaksie wees tussen Skrif, teologiese tradisie, empiriese resultate van die ondersoek in die spesifieke handelingsveld en die insigte wat aangrensende wetenskappe bydra tot die verstaan van die kultuur en die huidige lewensgevoel
Summary
Hierdie artikel is die eerste resultaat van die navorsingsprojek “Metateoretiese vertrekpunte in Praktiese Teologie”. Die noodsaak om metateoretiese vertrekpunte uit te spel ten opsigte van werklikheidsbeskouing, die hermeneutiese proses wanneer handelings in die praksis verstaan, verklaar en verander word en die beskouing van die aard en taak van wetenskapsbeoefening, word vanuit ’n reformatoriese perspektief behandel.
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