Public Theology in Forum

Towards Mutual Recognition: Resources for Interfaith Engagement from the Multidisciplinary “Recognition” Paradigm Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen ABSTRACTThis presentation seeks fresh resources for interfaith engagement, including using the Recognition paradigm to study our various Sacred Scriptures together. It proposes that this multidisciplinary paradigm may help us negotiate the challenges of unity an..

Paul S. Chung’s Interview with Bishop Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm  Meet Heinrich Bedford-Strohm  In this publication, Paul Chung interviews Bishop Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.  Bishop Bedford-Strohm is now serving as the moderator of the World Council of Churches. We at Forum-Center’s International Public Theology are excited to collaborate with Dr. ..

“Public Theology” in the German context In the German context, the concept of “public theology” can be described programmatically by Wolfgang Huber as follows: “'Public theology' means critical reflection on the effects of Christianity in the public sphere as well as dialogic participation in thinking about identity and the crises, the goals and the tasks of society.”[1]  In this sense, it is im..

https://www.ev.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/cg-jaehnichen/prof.html.de Interview: Traugott Jähnichen and Public Theology Clarification: Christian Social Ethics and Ethical Theology 1. You are an expert in the field of Christian Social Theory (CST), which is concerned with the ethical relation in dealing with social institutions and exploring a possibility of new social formation. Would you give us more ex..

Paul S. Chung’s Interview with Prof. Lois Malcolm Paul Chung takes the opportunity to interview Prof. Lois Malcolm at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. Our International Public Theology in Forum is excited to work together with Prof. Malcolm as we promote the links between public theology and democracy by way of attention to practices that cultivate civil society, interreligious engagement..

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Public Theology: Christianity-Israel-Islam   Written by Paul S. Chung, Director, International Public Theology in Forum-Center IntroductionReligion becomes a reservoir for cultural formation, social organization, and political way of governance. Shared value and cultural systems are grounded in religion. Thus, religious construction of cultural reality is at work in vario..

Paul S. Chung’s Interview with Prof. Dr. Traugott Jähnichen Paul Chung takes the opportunity to interview Prof. Dr. Traugott Jähnichen at Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany. Our International Public Theology in Forum is excited to work together with Prof. Jähnichen in the near future to promote public theology and democracy of civil society, eco-justice, and integ..

Brain and Embodiment        A theory of hiatus makes possible the capacity for human beings to inhibit animal instincts and to delay the gratification of basic needs. With this theory in mind, Nessan concurs with Dennett, who argues against “Cartesian theater.” What exists is a pandemonium of parallel circuits simultaneously creating “multiple drafts” of experienced reality, playing a transitory..

Craig L. Nessan, Christian Faith in Dialogue with Darwin: Evolutionary Biology and the Meaning of the Fall, in outline Currents in Theology and Mission 29:2 (April 2002) Review by Paul S. Chung Prof. Craig L. Nessan tries here to demythologize the fall in order to reconceptualize as grounded in the human condition between our evolutionary inheritance of the reptilian brain and the capacity for t..

Raymond Carr, PhD, Advisor and Member in the Editorial Committee, Center for International Public Theology in Forum Research Associate, Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project, Harvard University, Director, Codex Charles H. Long Papers Project,  President of the Society for the Study of Black Religion (SSBR)            Dr. Carr is an international public theologian whose research interes..