Karen Bloomquist: Another Worldview Must Be Enacted Today Patheos PT 5013 Ted Peters along with Karen Bloomquist are both writing in this post. Ted Peters here. In addition to discourse clarification, I have held that the public theologian should be continually engaged in worldview construction. As the very term, worldview, suggests, we are considering two things at once: the world and the way we view it. Even if we are aware that there is more to the cosmos than what... Read more
October 31, the eve of All Saints, is not just Halloween. It’s also Reformation Day. Protestants celebrate this festival to remember the date when Martin Luther nailed 95 Theses on the chapel door of Wittenberg Castle. This lit the fuse on a bang heard ‘round the world for five centuries. The central tenet of the Lutheran version of the Protestant Reformation is concise: we are justified by faith. That’s it! Nothing more! For John Calvin, justification-by-faith is the “main hinge... Read more
It appears to SBNRs (Spiritual But Not Religious) and the wider public that science and religion are at war. This need not be the case. Christian theology requires fides et ratio, faith plus reason. Read more
Would confirmation of an extraterrestrial intelligent civilization cause terrestrial religious traditions to face a crisis or even collapse? The Peters ETI Religious Crisis Survey suggests that most religious devotees would welcome space aliens to their BBQs. Read more
Should religion go extinct? Should we accelerate evolution by killing off religion? Just as the Chicxulub asteroid 65 million years ago killed off 75% of life on Earth, including all non-avion dinosaurs, should we today take control of our evolutionary future by deselecting religion? No. Rather, the public theologian should ask about religions foundations. Does God exist? If God exists, is God gracious? Read more
The Christian doctrine of sin reveals the secrets of our human condition like an x-ray camera reveals what's under our skin. As an exercise in public theology, let's x-ray the dark shadows of daily human life. Let’s get real about our human predicament. Read more
Should Christians dump Darwin for creationism or intelligent design? No. There is no war between science and religion. Yet, the Christian are still losing. Why? Read more
I applaud CRT for recognizing the fluidity of racial classifications due to their origin in social construction. With this as a working assumption, there is hope that these classifications and their connotations of rank and supremacy can be successfully deconstructed and reconstructed. Read more
“To be? Or, not to be?” asks Hamlet in his Shakespearian soliloquy. If Hamlet were to receive a religious exemption from vaccination or mask wearing and become infected by SARS-CoV-2, he might not live much longer. He would drop from being into nonbeing. What might we learn from Hamlet about religious exemptions to Covid 19 masking? Our version of Hamlet’s question is this: “To mask? Or, not to mask?” when in school, church, or other assemblies? “To Mask” is the... Read more
Introducing public theology. What is it? Public theology is conceived in the church, critically reasoned in the academy, and meshed with the culture for the sake of the global common good The five tasks of public theology include the pastoral, apologetic, scientific, political, and prophetic. Read more
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