Public Theology in Forum

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 ..

https://www.amazon.com/Ecology-Collective-Behavior-Deborah-Gordon/dp/0691232156  From a systems sociology pespective:Paul S. Chung  I enjoyed reading The Ecology of Collective Behavior, which is well written by Deborah Gordon, professor of Biology at Stanford University. What captures my eye is the author's ecological approach, facilitating an inquiry of how collective behavior operates in the d..

https://www.amazon.com/Social-Scientific-Study-Religion-Constructive/dp/0227177657           In this study, Paul S. Chung charts the history of social scientific study of religion from the axial age to the present day, and thereby lays a foundation for a new model of constructive theology in the comparative study of religion, culture and society. Analysing the thought of Max Weber, Alfred Schutz..

My major concern focuses on Bonhoeffer’s theology in terms of the public sphere of civil society and postcolonial condition. Public theology can be defined as a constructive-ethical way in effectively dealing with problems of stratification and reification in society and culture, which are embedded with postcolonial conditions (problem of immigration, refugees, and a new form of racism and biopo..

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/publictheology/2022/08/economism-vs-common-good-part-three/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=BRSS&utm_campaign=Progressive+Christian&utm_content=1090  Ted Peters pursues Public Theology at the intersection of science, religion, ethics, and public policy. Demythicizing economism, he underakes discourse clarification in coping with economism's creedal docrines:  Freedom an..

Jűrgen Habermas, a leading sociologist, inspired intellectuals and public readers to understand and involve the legacy of the Second World War. If it is a failure, how do we honor the Germans soldiers who died on the battlefield? But if it is liberation from Hitler’s Third Reich, how do we comprehend the reality of the Holocaust? Such debate implies both controversy and capability. Transposed to..