Public Theology for the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Duncan B. Forrester

by Storrar, William; Morton, Andrew; Plant, Raymond

• ISBN13: 9780567088925
• ISBN10: 0567088928
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

The book is a unique stocktaking, by a leading international group of theologians, social scientists and other scholars, on issues facing public theology at the beginning of the 21st century. It combines retrospect and prospect, in that it reflects on the issues and approaches that have characterized public theology in the 20th century, especially its latter half, and attempts to anticipate those which will or should come to the fore in the 21st century, seeking to discern continuities and changes. Three opening chapters deal with the overall theme of public or political theology, with Jurgen Moltmann giving a critical historical account from the Second World War onwards, Raymond Plant relating such theology to cultural pluralism, and Andrew Morton illustrating it from the work of Duncan Forrester. These are followed by pairs of contributions relating public theology to more specific topicsr: History; Technology and Creation; Globalization; Spirituality; Punishment and Forgiveness; Medical Ethics; Tolerance and Human Rights; Social Exclusion and Equality.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Contributors	xv
Introduction	1	(24)
William F. Storrar and Andrew R. Morton
Part I: Critical Contributions - the Twentieth-century Legacy
1. Duncan Forrester: a public theologian	25	(12)
Andrew R. Morton
2. Political theology in Germany after Auschwitz	37	(8)
Jürgen Moltmann
3. From political to public theologies: the role of theology in public life in South Africa	45	(18)
John W. de Gruchy
4. From justice to law and back: an Argentinian perspective	63	(14)
José Miguez-Bonino
Part II: Contested Ideas - Modernity's Legacy
5. Freedom in the crisis of modernity	77	(18)
Richard J. Bauckham
6. Equal respect and the Holy Spirit: the liberal demand for moral neutrality in the political sphere and Christian respect for the creation	95	(12)
Kees J. Klop
7. The Reformed tradition and the virtue of tolerance	107	(16)
David Fergusson
8. Human rights, divine transcendence	123	(20)
George Newlands
9. From Kant to Fukuyama and beyond: some reflections	143	(16)
Ann Loades
10. Pluralism, religion and justification in liberal societies	159	(20)
Raymond Plant
Part III: Changing Contexts - Globalization's Impact
11. Public theology and political economy in a globalizing era	179	(16)
Max L. Stackhouse
12. Globalization: an economist's perspective	195	(18)
C.T. Kurien
13. Farmed salmon and the sacramental feast: how Christian worship resists global capitalism	213	(18)
Michael S. Northcott
14. Living without dreams: is there a spirituality for justice in a globalized world?	231	(22)
Mary C. Grey
Part IV: Emerging Concerns - Twenty-first-century Issues and Approaches
MEDICAL ETHICS
15. Public theology and genetics	253	(14)
Robin Gill
16. In search of the virtuous patient: an essay in empirical theology	267	(18)
Alastair Campbell and Teresa Swift
JUSTICE
17. Punishing Christians	285	(18)
Stanley Hauerwas
18. On whether forgiveness has boundaries	303	(12)
Alan J. Torrance
EQUALITY
19. Slouching towards Jerusalem: achieving human equality	315	(16)
Timothy Gorringe
20. 'The first will be last, and the last first': practical theology and equality	331	(20)
Christopher Rowland
EXCLUSION
21. Blessed are the excluded	351	(14)
Alistair Kee
22. In the centre there are no fragments: Teologias Desencajadas (reflections on unfitting theologies)	365	(20)
Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid
POLITICS
23. Public theology in an age of voter apathy	385	(20)
Elaine Graham
24. Where the local and the global meet: Duncan Forrester's glocal public theology and Scottish political context	405	(26)
William F. Storrar
Afterword Working in the quarry: a response to the colloquium	431	(8)
Duncan B. Forrester
Duncan B. Forrester: Selected Bibliography	439	(6)
Index	445