Abstract
The attempt to relate the contemporary practice of ministry to New Testament structures of thought represents a complicated undertaking which encompasses the broad scope of the fields generally identified as biblical and practical theology. This occasion provides an opportunity, therefore, to consider some aspects of the relationship between these theological disciplines. The effort to correlate the work of biblical and practical theology must begin at the level of presuppositions. The problem focuses most sharply upon the definition of appropriate foundations for the task. This setting does not permit a review of the process through which biblical and practical theology have achieved their current understanding of their individual tasks. However, when the effort is made to correlate these two fields of endeavor, two issues come immediately to mind which call for some consideration, namely, the problem of biblical authority and the issue of hermeneutical procedures.