This contribution addresses the German-language debate about "Public Theology", understanding the latter as pointing to a basic methodological problem: Any attempt at relating religious particularity and generality to each other is in danger of neglecting the distinctive proper essence for the sake of general accessibility. Analyzing the (religious-)philosophical observations of Matthias Jung, Immanuel Kant, and Friedrich Schleiermacher, the differences between particularistic Christian religious inside views and social outside perspectives can be both distinguished and intertwined in such a way as to make the particularities of Christian convictions are comprehensible to those not sharing this perspective. Two examples convey the author's proposal to integrate an aesthetic dimension into the forms of discourse of Public Theology so as to do justice to the diversity of how church and religion are being perceived in the public.

Enthalten in:
Evangelische Theologie; 2019/1 Zweimonatsschrift (2019)

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Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie

Personen: Wabel, Thomas

Schlagwörter: Öffentliche Theologie Diskurs