Serious theology is systematic theology.
However, in this abridged translation of his magisterial Praktische Theologie , Christian Grethlein realizes the rigorous methodology, critical commitments, and expansive sweep of Practical theology as both an academic and an eccles.
Practical theology--with its focus on the church, its life and its practices--has sometimes been understood as the second order application of the real work of academic theology.
Or so the story goes.
Serious theology is systematic theology