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  • Theology in the Public Sphere in the Twenty-First Century

  • Bryan N. Massingale
  • Journal:
    Horizons / Volume 43 / Issue 2 / December 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 November 2016, pp. 351-356
    Print publication:
    December 2016
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  • Several decades ago David Tracy wrote that theologians speak to three publics: the academy, the church, and society. Since then many theologians have exhibited, in Tracy's words, “that drive to publicness which constitutes all good theological discourse[,] … a drive from and to those three publics.”1 Our four roundtable authors discuss how and why theologians engage the public sphere in the twenty-first century. In arguing for the necessity of such engagement, they also draw attention to the promise and perils of doing public theology today.