Public Theology and Public Missiology

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-212
Author(s):  
Robert S. Heaney
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Christian Formation ◽  
Dialogic Space ◽  
Public Witness

Faithful public witness is an expression of the faith of particular communities of formation. Thus, demythologized public discourse should be rejected in favor of the outwardness (or mission) emerging from theological particularity. This article draws from missiological resources in a bid to identify priorities for Christian formation toward public engagement. First, I take “public” to be a dialogic space where bounded entities and identities (people and communities) take part in interaction, engagement, and adaptation. Second, such an understanding of “public” is already at work in the prophetic emergence of the early church, thus pointing toward the theological significance of such sociality. Third, I identify priorities for formation from the missiological vision of prophetic dialogue.

Public Theology: Its Pastoral, Apologetic, Scientific, Political, and Prophetic Tasks

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-177
Author(s):  
Ted Peters
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Constructive Work ◽  
The Church

Abstract This blueprint for a constructive public theology assumes that Christian theology already includes public discourse. Following David Tracy’s delineation of three publics—church, academy, culture—further constructive work leads to a public theology conceived in the church, reflected on critically in the academy, and meshed with the wider culture. Public reflection on classic Christian doctrines in a post-secular pluralistic context takes the form of pastoral illumination, apologetic reason, a theology of nature, political theology, and prophetic critique.

Hybrid Organization in the Church: Hybrid Church as a Strategy for Public Engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 554-574
Author(s):  
Richard Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Hybrid Organization ◽  
Local Business ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Church

Abstract Hybrid churches adopt some local business practices and identities in order to create a place and role in secular public space for a public engagement.1 They use hospitality and embassy to challenge the basis of public engagement, discourse, objectives and goals. Hybrid organization alongside hospitality and embassy enables the creation of alternative public spaces in which engagement and discourse may take place according to an alternative communicative base to conventional public discourse, intentionally to critique secular conventions of public presence and discourse.

Public Theology and Liberal Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanan A. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Education ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Nel Noddings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Capacity To Change

Abstract This essay explores the conditions necessary for religious and nonreligious worldviews to facilitate dialogue across difference in the public discourse of diverse democracies, and for a pedagogy that prepares citizens to participate in that discourse. Following Nel Noddings, I call those prepared to learn from one another through this sort of dialogue ‘intelligent’. They acknowledge the possible fallibility of their beliefs and behaviors and the human capacity to change course when one has strayed from a chosen path. By way of illustration the essay considers how such an intelligent viewpoint might be conceived from the perspective of my own Jewish faith.

Public Engagement and Policy Entrepreneurship on Social Media in the Time of Anti-Vaccination Movements

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-80
Author(s):  
Melodie Yunju Song
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Competing Values ◽  
Mmr Vaccine ◽  
The Public ◽  
Coverage Rates

North America has experienced a resurgence of measles outbreak due to unprecedentedly low Mumps-Measles and Rubella vaccination coverage rates facilitated by the anti-vaccination movement. The objective of this chapter is to explore the new online public space and public discourse using Web 2.0 in the public health arena to answer the question, ‘What is driving public acceptance of or hesitancy towards the MMR vaccine?' More specifically, typologies of online public engagement will be examined using MMR vaccine hesitancy as a case study to illustrate the different approaches used by pro- and anti-vaccine groups to inform, consult with, and engage the public on a public health issue that has been the subject of long-standing public debate and confusion. This chapter provides an overview of the cyclical discourse of anti-vaccination movements. The authors hypothesize that anti-vaccination, vaccine hesitant, and pro-vaccination representations on the online public sphere are reflective of competing values (e.g., modernism, post-modernism) in contemporary society.

scholarly journals Towards More Sustainable M&A Deals: Scholars as Change Agents

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9623
Author(s):  
Olimpia Meglio
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Available Information

Mergers and acquisitions have significantly contributed to making the world globally connected, providing benefits from globalization through acquisition waves. Along with benefits, acquisitions have also accentuated many sustainability and responsibility issues that are central to both public discourse and global policies. Nonetheless, acquisition and sustainability research have evolved separately, as scholars have left sustainability and responsibility topics at the margin of the acquisition discourse. This impacts the ability of academics to affect practice through teaching by restricting available information. Scholars are important change agents for making more sustainable deals through their research, teaching, and public engagement. I specifically focus on research as it permeates both teaching and public engagement. I focus my analysis on five intertwined issues—long term orientation, stakeholder lens, linguistic turn, umbrella constructs, and the engaged scholarship research approach—that may conjointly foster such a change.

scholarly journals Does really no one care? Analyzing the public engagement of communication scientists on Twitter

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Jünger ◽  
Birte Fähnrich
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
Large Share ◽  
Scholarly Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Twitter Activity ◽  
The Impact

Recent publications question the public visibility of communication science as a discipline and its relevance for the broader society. To address this issue, we analyze the public engagement of communication scientists by using the example of their Twitter activity. We theoretically distinguish eight types of engagement and explore their empirical prevalence. The results show that a large share of communication is between peers, fulfilling social networking functions. Nevertheless, more than a quarter of the tweets are on political and social topics. In this way, communication scientists bring society into their scholarly community and thus act as bridge builders. They also reach diverse publics outside of science, such as followers from the field of economics. Our study thus highlights the diversity of connections between science and society and can offer a starting point to further research other fields of public engagement and the impact of the discipline on the public discourse.

Toward a Methodology and Public Discourse of Christological Concreteness: Lessons from a Discussion of Health Care Rationing in the United States

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-364
Author(s):  
Nicholas R. Brown
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Health Care Rationing ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Care Rationing ◽  
Public Health Expenditures

Abstract A recent passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has once again sparked fierce public debates within the United States over the permissibility of health care rationing. Unfortunately only a handful of public theologians have addressed this issue, and those who have often fail to draw upon Jesus’ ethical praxis. This article corrects this lacuna by offering a clarifying theological analysis and defence of one form of rationing, known as Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER), through a proposed method of Christological concreteness. The article begins by outlining which CER provisions are included in the ACA, and then discusses how they will re-shape US public health expenditures in the future. An examination of Richard Land’s and Jim Wallis’s theological evaluations of rationing is used to demonstrate that, while each is helpful in some respects, both omit the moral saliency of Jesus. To correct these shortcomings, the article draws upon some recent methodological trends within Christian ethics and devises a Christological method based upon a synthesis of integrative, canonical, reiterative, embodied and incarnational variables. Finally, a critical analysis of Allen Verhey’s discussion of health care rationing explains why his approach not only provides a compelling justification for using CER but also a preferable approach for public theology.

The Christian Life

2019 ◽  
pp. 240-256
Author(s):  
Stefan Heuser
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
God's Word ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Public Witness

This chapter explores Bonhoeffer’s understanding of the Christian life in its public witness to God’s worldly presence. For Bonhoeffer, the Christian life unfolds as God’s word draws human beings into the story of Christ and as human beings in turn respond through practices of prayer and doing justice for others. The first section of this chapter explores the grammar of the Christian life as witnessing to the word of God. The second outlines Bonhoeffer’s distinction between the ethics of formation and of conformation, which sets apart Bonhoeffer’s approach to the Christian life from some other Protestant approaches. Third, there follows an account of the Christological grammar of the Christian life as life ‘in Christ’. The final section reflects upon the significance of Bonhoeffer’s doctrine of the mandates for understanding the publicity of the Christian life and its relevance for public theology today.

Public Theology and Music

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Gill
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
The World ◽  
Music And Theology

AbstractThis article argues that music may be an effective but under-explored metaphor for public theology. Specifically music can act as a helpful metaphor for theologians seeking to respond to three dominant criticisms of public theology, namely: that theology is too particularistic to be relevant to public discourse; that theology (and religion more widely) is harmful and dangerous especially after 9/11; that theology offers nothing that is objective to public discourse. The article responds to these criticisms by pointing out that they can be applied to public music too, but that the world would be impoverished if music (and theology) were simply to be eliminated.

A new global theology? Intercultural theology and the challenge of public discourse in a global church

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik R. Pieterse
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Global Discourse ◽  
Global Church ◽  
Intercultural Theology ◽  
The Church ◽  
Global Theology ◽  
Public Witness

This article examines the potential of intercultural theology as a mode of public theologizing particularly suited for a global Christian church of extraordinary diversity today. Given the salience of “public” themes already resident within it, I suggest, intercultural theology has the potential to make a substantive contribution to the nature and practice of theology as global discourse. I explore three respects in which intercultural theology can assist the church in articulating its public witness: the demand that theology be global in scope, holistic in depth and reach, and attentive to truth.

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