The subject of this study is the points and tasks of public theology. First, this study makes an introduction about the definitions of public theology. Second, it clarifies that the theological ground of public theology is offered by the Kingdom of God proclaimed and practiced by Jesus Christ and the universality of divine reality. Third, it explains how public theology is distinguished from civil religion, political theology, and liberation theology. Fourth, it discusses the methodology of public theology. Fifth, it argues that the publicness of public theology is to be found between privatization and politicization. Sixth, it introduces Volf’s concepts of ‘internal difference’ and ‘religious political pluralism’ which he proposes as an alternative strategy against both secularist exclusion and totalitarian intervention. Seventh, it envisions the way toward which public theology is to be directed in the contemporary context of globalization. And finally, as a conclusion, it suggests the points and tasks of public theology in terms of four points of view, especially including the one reflecting Korean context.
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David Tracy, The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1987), p. 29.
Max L. Stackhouse, Globalization and Grace (New York/London: The Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007), p. 85.
Ronald F. Thiemann, Constructing a Public Theology: The Church in a Pluralistic Culture (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991), p. 21.
E. Harold Breitenberg, ‘To Tell the Truth: Will the Real Public Theology Please Stand Up?’, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 23:2 (2003), 66.
John de Gruchy, ‘Public Theology as Christian Witness: Exploring the Genre’, International Journal of Public Theology 1:1 (2007), 39–40.
Sebastian C. H. Kim, “Editorial,” International Journal of Public Theology, 1:1 (2007), 2.
Wolfhart Pannenberg, Theology and the Philosophy of Science (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1973), p. 336.
Martin Marty, ‘Reinhold Niebuhr: Public Theology and the American Experience’, The Journal of Religion 54:4 (October 1974).
Stackhouse, Globalization and Grace, pp. 87–89. Examples of the radical form of civil religion that blindly adheres to a national ideology include Christianity under Nazi Germany, Orthodox Churches under the Communist Soviet Union, and the churches of apartheid South Africa.
J. Bryan Hehir, ‘Forum’, Religion and American Culture 10:1 (2000), 20. Kim, Theology in the Public Sphere, p. 5.
Ibid., p. 19.
Ibid., p. 113.
Ibid., p. 5. According to Tracy, elective affinities exist between the distinct publics (church, academy, society) and distinctive plausibility structures (systematic theology, fundamental theology, practical theology) of particular theologies. Ibid., p. 28.
Ibid., pp. 29–30.
Ibid., p. 31.
Max L. Stackhouse, ‘Public Theology and Ethical Judgment’, Theology Today 54:2 (1997), 165–79.
Ibid., p. 100.
Ibid., pp. 101, 103.
Ibid., p. 103.
Ibid., p. 79.
Ibid., pp. 81–84.
Ibid., pp. 84–97.
Ibid., p. 93. ‘But how should we ‘negotiate’ Christian identity and difference in the midst of cultural change?’ Volf’s answer to this question is threefold. ‘First, Christian identity is established no primarily by denying and combating what is outside but by embracing and highlighting the center of what is inside—Jesus Christ as the Word who took on flesh . . . Second, relationship to what is outside should be governed by love . . . Third, boundaries should be permeable . . . They must be open for traffic to go out . . . as well as in . . .’ Ibid., pp. 95–96.
Wolterstorff, ‘Role of Religion’, 115. Volf, A Public Faith, p. 125.
Ibid., pp. 109–11.
Ibid., p. 115.
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The subject of this study is the points and tasks of public theology. First, this study makes an introduction about the definitions of public theology. Second, it clarifies that the theological ground of public theology is offered by the Kingdom of God proclaimed and practiced by Jesus Christ and the universality of divine reality. Third, it explains how public theology is distinguished from civil religion, political theology, and liberation theology. Fourth, it discusses the methodology of public theology. Fifth, it argues that the publicness of public theology is to be found between privatization and politicization. Sixth, it introduces Volf’s concepts of ‘internal difference’ and ‘religious political pluralism’ which he proposes as an alternative strategy against both secularist exclusion and totalitarian intervention. Seventh, it envisions the way toward which public theology is to be directed in the contemporary context of globalization. And finally, as a conclusion, it suggests the points and tasks of public theology in terms of four points of view, especially including the one reflecting Korean context.
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