Christoph Hübenthal is Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Center for Catholic Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Christiane Alpers is Research and Teaching Fellow at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.
This is a handbook that, with high intellectual sophistication and high sensitivity toward concrete contemporary challenges, both serves as a primer for the state of the art of public theology in the Global North and as indicator of a highly dynamic debate that is ongoing and growing. -- Prof. Dr. Rudolf von Sinner, Curitiba/Brazil Chair, Global Network of Public Theology Public theology is a model of theology that emphasizes the communicability between faith and reason. This Handbook paves the way for a new discussion, providing new argumentations and topics. Situating public theology in different traditions and debates, the Handbook is much more than a collection of essays. Its goal is to show how Christian theology may defend modernity against its theological as well as its secular enemies. It engages in theoretical reflections, recounts the complicated history of the concept, and opens the discussion to new ecumenical approaches. It emphasizes the inherent relationship of public theology with ethical questions, especially freedom, justice, and solidarity. This Handbook is a great success, and it could not be timelier. -- Prof. Dr. Hille Haker, Richard McCormick Endowed Chair of Ethics, Loyola University Chicago, USA