This article focuses attention on the capabilities approach, an increasingly influential approach to human development. The case is made that, in light of its popularity, a Christian public theological engagement with this approach is needed. The various attempts that have been made up until now to engage the capabilities approach from the perspective of Christian theology have been lacking in methodological awareness and clarity. On account of this weakness an explicit methodological framework is developed through a revised form of the method of correlation. For that purpose, the work of Paul Tillich, David Tracy and Dan Browning is put to use. What this revised method leads to in practice is examined through a dialogue with Martha Nussbaum (one of the main proponents of the capabilities approach) and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

本文重点关注能力方法，这是一种对人类发展影响越来越大的方法。理由是，鉴于其受欢迎程度，需要基督教公共神学参与这种方法。迄今为止，从基督教神学的角度进行能力方法的各种尝试一直缺乏方法论意识和清晰度。由于这个弱点，一个明确的方法框架是通过相关方法的修订形式发展起来的。为此，Paul Tillich、David Tracy 和 Dan Browning 的工作得到了使用。通过与 Martha Nussbaum（能力方法的主要支持者之一）和 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 的对话，研究了这种修订后的方法在实践中的作用。