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A Companion to Public Theology, edited by Sebastian Kim & Katie Day

A Companion to Public Theology, edited by Sebastian Kim & Katie Day A Companion to Public Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. vi–495. isbn 13-978-9004336056, $ 171.When it comes to public theology, it is worth giving credit to the American theologian Martin Marty for coining the term ‘public theology’ and for providing a description of it in the 1960s. Since then, public theology has now come to the forefront in global theological discourses. We now have a Global Network in Public Theology (gnpt), which was provisionally set up at a conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2005 and formally constituted a second conference held at Princeton Theological Seminary in 2007, usa. The gnpt is currently based at the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Research Center at the University of Bamberg in Germany and consists of more than twenty-five research centers for public theology in all continents.The current book is the edited collection of essays by twenty public theologians from different continents. It attempts to address the hermeneutics of and the methodological issues in public theology. The fundamental question for hermeneutics in this edited volume is: what does it mean to do public theology in our contemporary context? The fundamental question for methodology is: how does public theology play a role in our socio-political and religio-cultural http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Public Theology Brill

A Companion to Public Theology, edited by Sebastian Kim & Katie Day

International Journal of Public Theology , Volume 11 (4): 5 – Dec 6, 2017

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1872-5171
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1569-7320
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10.1163/15697320-12341513
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A Companion to Public Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. vi–495. isbn 13-978-9004336056, $ 171.When it comes to public theology, it is worth giving credit to the American theologian Martin Marty for coining the term ‘public theology’ and for providing a description of it in the 1960s. Since then, public theology has now come to the forefront in global theological discourses. We now have a Global Network in Public Theology (gnpt), which was provisionally set up at a conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2005 and formally constituted a second conference held at Princeton Theological Seminary in 2007, usa. The gnpt is currently based at the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Research Center at the University of Bamberg in Germany and consists of more than twenty-five research centers for public theology in all continents.The current book is the edited collection of essays by twenty public theologians from different continents. It attempts to address the hermeneutics of and the methodological issues in public theology. The fundamental question for hermeneutics in this edited volume is: what does it mean to do public theology in our contemporary context? The fundamental question for methodology is: how does public theology play a role in our socio-political and religio-cultural

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International Journal of Public TheologyBrill

Published: Dec 6, 2017

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