A companion to public theology /

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Imprint:Leiden : Brill, [2017]
©2017
Description:1 online resource (xx, 495 pages)
Language:English
Series:Brill's companions to modern theology, 2451-9839 ; 1
Brill's companions to modern theology ; 1.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11960118
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Other authors / contributors:Kim, Sebastian C. H., editor
Day, Katie, 1951- editor.
ISBN:9789004336063
9004336060
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 9, 2018).
Summary:The Companion to Public Theology offers a collection of cutting-edge essays by an international group of scholars that provides a foundation for public theology as well as engagement with a wide range of public issues in dialogue with other disciplines.--
Other form:Print version: Kim, Sebastian. A companion to public theology. Leiden : Brill, 2017 9789004336056
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Foundations of Public Theology; 1 The Bible and Public Theology; 2 Public Theology in the History of Christianity; 3 Does it Matter? On Whether there is Method in the Madness; Part 2 Public Theology and the Political Sphere; 4 State, Democracy & Community Organizing; 5 Public Theology and Reconciliation; 6 Public Theology in the Context of Nationalist Ideologies: A South African Example; 7 Politics, Church and the Common Good; Part 3 Public Theology, Economics and Social Justice.
  • 8 Public Theology in the Context of Globalization9 Social Cohesion and the Common Good: Drawing on Social Science in Understanding the Middle East; 10 Public Theology as a Theology of Citizenship; 11 Public Theology, the Public Sphere and the Struggle for Social Justice; 12 Forced Labor and the Movement to End Human Trafficking; 13 'I Met God, She's Black': Racial, Gender and Sexual Equalities in Public Theology; 14 Public Theology and Health Care; Part 4 Public Theology, Ethics and Civil Societies; 15 Whence Climate Injustice; 16 Public Theology and Bioethics.
  • 17 Urban Ecology and Faith Communities18 The Quest for a Coalitional Praxis: Examining the Attraction of a Public Theology from the Perspective of Minorities; 19 Mediating Public Theology; 20 Worship, Liturgy and Public Witness; Index.