Companion to public theology / / edited by Sebastian Kim, Katie Day.

Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Public theology has emerged in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as theologians have increasingly entered the public square to engage complex issues. This Companion to Public Theology brings a much-needed resource to this relatively n...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Brill's companions to modern theology 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (515 pages)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Katie Day and Sebastian Kim
  • The Bible and Public Theology / Paul Hanson
  • Public Theology in the History of Christianity / Sebastian Kim
  • Does it Matter? On Whether there is Method in the Madness / Dirk J. Smit
  • State, Democracy and Community Organizing / Luke Bretherton
  • Public Theology and Reconciliation / David Tombs
  • Public Theology in the Context of Nationalist Ideologies: A South African Example / Nico Koopman
  • Politics, Church and the Common Good / Andrew Bradstock and Hilary Russell
  • Public Theology in the Context of Globalization / Scott R. Paeth
  • Social Cohesion and the Common Good: Drawing on Social Science in Understanding the Middle East / Katie Day
  • Public Theology as a Theology of Citizenship / Rudolf von Sinner
  • Public Theology, the Public Sphere and the Struggle for Social Justice / Nicholas Sagovsky
  • Forced Labor and the Movement to End Human Trafficking / Letitia M. Campbell and Yvonne C. Zimmerman
  • ‘I Met God, She’s Black’: Racial, Gender and Sexual Equalities in Public Theology / Esther McIntosh
  • Public Theology and Health Care / Frits de Lange
  • Whence Climate Injustice / Larry Rasmussen
  • Public Theology and Bioethics / Lisa Sowle Cahill
  • Urban Ecology and Faith Communities / Christopher Baker and Elaine Graham
  • The Quest for a Coalitional Praxis: Examining the Attraction of a Public Theology from the Perspective of Minorities / Clive Pearson
  • Mediating Public Theology / Jolyon Mitchell and Jenny Wright
  • Worship, Liturgy and Public Witness / Cláudio Carvalhaes
  • Index.