Public Theology in Forum

Introduction  In my discussion on Karl Barth and Ted Peters in the previous section ("Proleptic Suite: Karl Barth and Ted Peters"), a theology of divine speech act (or divine action) comes to encounter a theology of prolepsis in the framework of postmodern holism.        God’s first act in the original creation (t=0) bestows upon us and the world the gift of an open future through the blessing o..

My Intellectual Odyssey  In Postcolonial Pubic Theology (2016), I was involved in hermeneutically mediating Barth's theology of speech events with Peters' proleptic theology of nature. One of my other concerns is a study of systems sociology (Niklas Luhmann) and the structure of evolutionary theory (Stephen Gould and Richard Lewontin).          During my postdoctoral studies at the GTU and UC Be..

Phenomenology and Prolepsis  The science of complexity facilitates a theological reformulation in seeking a radical expression of freedom of God, which allows a gift of creativity to a self-organizing universe to come into being. A divinely created universe is a self-organizing system with freedom and creativity, implying a proleptic view of continual creation from God’s future.        A notion ..

Dissipative Structure and Non-Equilibrium The biological concept of autopoiesis is not separated from the study of thermodynamic processes and dissipative structures, as described by Ilya Prigogine, the Russian-born chemist and physicist. He was Nobel Laureate and professor of physical chemistry at the Free University of Brussels.       If the Santiago theory focuses on the organizational closur..

Review by Paul S. Chung   This book introduces a Catholic theological endeavor in articulating Liberation-Postcolonial ethics in the Philippines. The term ‘postcolonial’ refers to an umbrella discourse, but its theory is typically taken from French post-structuralism (Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan) to which postcolonial theoreticians such as Edward Said, Homi K. Bhabha, and Gay..

Cybernetic Model and Feedback Circle To critically engage with Luhmam’s cybernetic phenomenology, it is important to examine a cybernetic model. The Greek kybernetes (steersman) is coined to invent a special name for cybernetics, which is defined as the science of “control and communication in the animal and the machine.” (Nobert Wiener, Cybernetics, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1948).  Cybernetics i..

Paul S. Chung      Introduction Thomas Kuhn’s theory of paradigm shift implies a structure of scientific revolution from normal science to a new model in solving anomalies, which are riddled with the existing scientific model. Epistemological rupture takes place in the entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques as shared by the members of a given community.[1]      Such epistemological ..