International Journal of Public Theology
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I. Basic Journal Info

Country

Netherlands

Journal ISSN: 15697320, 18725171

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers

History: 2013-2021

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The idea and practice of public theology has recently emerged as a distinct field of scholarship that proactively engages theology with contemporary public issues. The global project of public theology has expanded the western idea of three audiencesthe church the academy and the public domainand their interrelationship to multiple publics. It has now become a global discipline that intersects with the emergence of a world Christianity. Now in the Anthropocene those three audiences should be viewed in the light of a concern for the whole of creation including those other creatures with whom we share life and upon whom we depend. A public theology seeks to be in creative dialogue with different academic disciplines including politics economics law and security studies cultural studies religion spirituality the natural science and the social sciences and the study of globalization. It is sensitive to the emergence of new publics that arise out of theologys engagement with other new disciplineslike astrobiologywhich redefines understandings of what is space and what is public. It is also a discipline that welcomes the expertise of practitioners reflecting on public policy.