CHRISTIAN FORMATION IN PRACTICAL PUBLIC THEOLOGY

by JENNIFER PATTERSON in Vol. 6 No. 2 / Oct 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35285/ucc6.2.2020.art8



Practical public theology engages questions concerning life together in a political community. Forming Christians in practical public theology draws on biblically informed principles and the experience of community in the church. It fosters a conception of public life that is wider than the strictly political, enabling responses with the resources and capacities of spheres beyond government alone. It cultivates a disposition to discern the multiple theological principles in many concerns of our common life and attention to multiple factors from the perspectives of practitioners in other spheres. Finally, practical public theology equips Christians to recognize more than material dimensions in challenges facing individuals and communities and to respond relationally, through loving service to all neighbors.

Keywords
Practical Public Theology, Formation, Creation, Cultural Mandate, Common Grace, Image Of God, Stewardship, Poverty, Conscience, Gender Identity
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