Whose Public? Which Theology?: On What We Mean by Public Theology

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What public theology is, why it matters now, and why publictheology.com and journal.publictheology.com hold space for a digital public sphere.

I start with Martin Marty, who coined the term in 1974, and David Tracy's three publics: the academy, the church, and the wider society. Most theology speaks to the first two and forgets the third. Public theology remembers.

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