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This introduction has identified the importance of friendship, considered definitions of friendship, and explored the terminology of practical theology. I have highlighted the potential for a practical theology of friendship to inform the shared social and theological imaginations of Christian communities of faith and the practices of friendship encouraged and nurtured within and by these communities. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of critical dialogue between diverse sources to this endeavor. The structure of the remainder of the book is based on the practical theological approach to correlation advocated by Don Browning. In A Fundamental Practical Theology Browning identifies descriptive theology, historical theology, systematic theology, and strategic practical theology as the four sub-movements of theology.⁷¹ The interdisciplinary theoretical research presented in this book is based primarily on these sub-movements, as outlined below.