https://tedp.substack.com/p/we-belong-9-lutherans-doing-public Public Theoloy and Social Stratification:A Sociological Approach Craig L. Nessan and Paul S. Chung We read Ted Peters on Lutheran public theology in The Voice of Public Theology. Peters defines public theology as being “conceived in the church, critically reasoned in the academy, and offered to the wider culture for the sake of the c..