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Do you want to understand public theology and its place in modern society?
These stimulating analyses will enable readers to come to a clearer view of what Public Theology is, and how we may apply it.
What is 'public theology'?
Does it mean the arts?
Public policy?
Party politics?
The answer is: probably all of these.
In 'A Higher Throne' we are dealing with a rather ill-formed topic, on which there has not been a consistent viewpoint. 'A Higher Throne' is based on the Eleventh Oak Hill Annual School of Theology, and it offers a conversation among those who represent a consistently orthodox evangelicalism, who see public life in relation to the Christian gospel in quite different ways, but who are committed to thinking biblically about the matter and coming to a common mind.
Daniel Strange
Introduction
Defining a discipline
The story so far
Surveying the current scene
Building a theological framework
Presenting two models for consideration
On being 'offensive' and 'thick' in public
Conclusion: moving forward by stepping back
New living in an old creation
Kirsten Birkett
Introduction
The importance of resurrection ethics
Transformed by the Spirit
The objective reality of creation
Difficulties with this view
The problem with ends
The history of order
Human participation in the renewed creation
The subjective reality
A moral life
Living in Christ
Some thoughts on new living in an old creation
Samuel Rutherford and the confessionally Christian state
David Field
Evangelical defeatism and public theology
Samuel Rutherford's Lex, rex
Lex, rex and the confessionally Christian state
Sixteen objections to the confessionally Christian state
Alternatives to the confessionally Christian state
Summary and conclusion
Further reading
Gabbatha and Golgotha: penal substitutionary atonement and the public square
Garry J. Williams
Introduction: the cross and politics
The cross and politics: East and West?
Outline
Part: from the public square to the cross
Part: from the cross to the public square
Conclusion