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Namsoon Kang's cosmopolitan theology, read with Appiah and Derrida, as a public theology that crosses borders without erasing them.

Whose land do you live on, and whose neighbor are you? I read Kang's "Toward a Cosmopolitan Theology" from Planetary Loves (2011) alongside Kwame Anthony Appiah and Jacques Derrida, and argue that an inclusive, interreligious public theology needs a cosmopolitan grammar.

Read it at publictheology.com/towards-a-cosmopolitan-public-theology.

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