The Language of Public Theology
Can the language that we use and take for granted be such a problem for public theology? As we search for a vision, a sense of purpose, a dream that will motivate and inspire as 2012 begins, I want to...
View ArticleNew Issue of Political Theology Published: 13.2 The Politics of Speculative...
‘What is speculative realism and what has it to do with the world of ethics, politics, church and theology?’ is the question posed in this special themed edition of Political Theology. Or put another...
View ArticleTeaching Political Theology, Part 1: Political Theology: A Guide for the...
I am an American who lives and teaches political theology in the United Kingdom, and for the next few months I will be reflecting on the experiences, pitfalls, and opportunities in teaching political...
View ArticleJim Wallis and Liberal Care for the Poor
Last Thursday, I attended a panel about Public Theology and Public Discourse with Jim Wallis and two conservative political science professors from the area. After their opening statements in which all...
View ArticlePhilosophy and Religious Practices: New Research Network and CFPs
Notice of a New Research Network Philosophers of religion in both the continental and analytic traditions have long been accused of distancing themselves from concrete religious practices. As Brian...
View ArticleSeeking the Peace and Prosperity of the City: The Politics of Jeremiah 29:1,4-7
The policy of accommodation, cooperative political activities and praying to God for the well-being of a foreign city as suggested by Jeremiah was both innovative and a great challenge to the exilic...
View ArticleThe Political Theology Syllabi Project: Michael McCurry and Kris Norris
For nearly two decades, Wesley Theological Seminary has sponsored the National Capital Semester for Seminarians (NCSS), a program which immerses students from Wesley and other seminaries around the...
View ArticleThe Politics of Public Wisdom—Proverbs 1:20-33 (Richard Davis)
Wisdom's publicly raised voice challenges the simple ones, who love being simple; the scoffers, who delight in their scoffing; and the fools, who hate knowledge. The reproof of Wisdom is especially...
View ArticlePublic Theology and the Republican National Convention (Daniel R. DiLeo)
“Father God, in the name of Jesus, Lord we’re so thankful for the life of Donald Trump. We’re thankful that you are guiding him, that you are giving him the words to unite this party, this country,...
View ArticleThe Future of Public Theology (Daniel R. DiLeo)
The following is adapted from a talk given at the conference “Public Theology and the Global Common Good,” held at Boston College on October 15. At this year’s vice-presidential debate, Governors Tim...
View ArticleThe Politics of Public Wisdom—Proverbs 1:20-33 (Richard Davis)
Wisdom's publicly raised voice challenges the simple ones, who love being simple; the scoffers, who delight in their scoffing; and the fools, who hate knowledge. The reproof of Wisdom is especially...
View ArticlePublic Theology and the Republican National Convention (Daniel R. DiLeo)
“Father God, in the name of Jesus, Lord we’re so thankful for the life of Donald Trump. We’re thankful that you are guiding him, that you are giving him the words to unite this party, this country,...
View ArticleThe Future of Public Theology (Daniel R. DiLeo)
The following is adapted from a talk given at the conference “Public Theology and the Global Common Good,” held at Boston College on October 15. At this year’s vice-presidential debate, Governors Tim...
View ArticleIt’s Not for Everybody
To be a public theologian does not mean to do theology for everybody. It is not a matter of speaking from the particular to the universal, but of dwelling within multiple, overlapping particularities...
View ArticleWhat Is Theological about Public Theology?
The vocation of the public theologian is to testify to their faith and in doing so to further the good news of Jesus in all our publics. At the same time, the aim of this public theological discourse...
View ArticleGood Publicity? Public Theology in an Age of Public Shame
It seems that only a certain kind of public theologian, touting a certain kind of theology, is recognizable to the religiously unaffiliated as being, well, religious.Source
View ArticleToward Agonistic Practice as Public Theology
Agonistic practices of lively contestation constitute a practical way to love enemies and thereby to do public theology.Source
View ArticleFutures for Public Theology
Part of our duty is to generate the publics that we want to inhabit, not simply to assent to the publics that are foisted upon us.Source
View ArticleTroubled Northern Ireland: Talking Walls, Open Wounds
Twenty years after the signing of the Good Friday peace agreement, partisan murals litter the landscape of Northern Ireland reminding all of the thirty-year civil war between Catholic and Protestant...
View ArticleThe Politics of Color at the Strait Called Detroit
The primal brilliance of the color-scheme—aquamarine Sturgeon-Queen arising fierce and indistinguishable from the sun-shimmered waters themselves, in (visually) bombastic counterpoint to a burnt-rouge...
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