Developing a Public Faith: New Directions in Practical Theology

by Richard R. Osmer

This collection of fifteen essays honors James Fowler, the best-known voice on faith development. Each essay explores faith development theory with a particular interest in extending Fowler's most original Fowler's broad and encompassing attention to the four mutually influential tasks of practical theology has mirrored new understandings of the field of the last few decades.

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Published December 1, 2003

About the author

Richard Osmer is Princeton Theological Seminary’s Ralph B. and Helen S. Ashenfelter Professor of Mission and Evangelism Emeritus. He earned an MDiv from Yale University and a PhD from Emory University. His interests include the teaching ministry of congregations, practical theology, and interdisciplinary thinking, and his courses cover educational psychology and practical theology, children’s literature in Christian moral education, confirmation and catechism, and the social functions of religion, ethics, and education in theories of modernity and postmodernity. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he chairs the Committee to Write New Catechisms for the Presbyterian Church (USA).