The pragmatism of Americans is a commonplace, but perhaps it is not so well known that the theologians of Europe, taking this penchant for practical creativity more seriously than Americans sometimes do, look to the English-speaking world and especially to America herself for viable developments in contemporary pastoral theology. The collaboration of Karl Rahner, the great German theologian, and Daniel Morrissey, a young American theologian,in Theology of Pastoral Action points this hope up well-as does the fact that theirs is the first book in a series intended specifically to stimulate the development of imaginative pastoral theology in the American and British Churches.