Christianity Outside the Church: Pannenberg’s Public Theology in Dialogue with Max Stackhouse

Jae Yang

doi:10.5771/9781978715912

Summary

Wolfhart Pannenberg’s understanding of “public,” based on his view of revelation as history, is that everything is potentially a theology. Of course, a public theology of everything is impossible; therefore, Jae Yang develops a Pannenbergian public theology by correlating Pannenberg’s theological methods (postfoundational, eschatological, and trinitarian) with the aims and methods of public theology, and second, with Pannenberg’s views on various spheres, arguing that Pannenberg’s public theology engages not just the academic world, but also the political, economic, familial, religious, and cultural ones. This book argues that Pannenberg is a public theologian because the public purpose of his theology is not to coerce or inject a Christian agenda onto the public (political theology), challenge and subvert unjust structures (liberation theology), or substitute overtly Christian religion with a publicly palatable secular and vaguely religious one (civil religion), but to cooperate and dialogue with the established order under the presumption of a “Christianity outside the church.”

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1590-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1591-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 190
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
What Is Public Theology? No access Pages 9 - 30
The Public Theology of Max Stackhouse in Dialogue with Pannenberg No access Pages 31 - 54
Public Theology in Pannenberg’s Method No access Pages 55 - 96
Christianity Outside the Church No access Pages 97 - 168
Conclusion No access Pages 169 - 172
Bibliography No access Pages 173 - 186
Index No access Pages 187 - 188
About the Author No access Pages 189 - 190