Public Theology Lectures

Topic outline

• 

  General

  • Lutheran World Federation (LWF), in collaboration with the Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology at Stellenbosch University and the Berlin Institute for Public Theology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, have developed a series of lectures on public theology.

    These are completely free to use, and are available in a number of formats:

    Option 1 (for those who have relatively easy access to the internet): video lectures on YouTube.
    Option 2 (for those with limited internet access): audio lectures, together with (where relevant) presentation slides in PDF format

    Both formats include task a task sheet with questions for further discussion, and a table of time codes to match the presentation slides to the audio version of the lecture

    
    

• 

  Links

  The complete series of video lectures is available as a YouTube playlist. NB - this does not include the task sheets!

  • YouTube playlist URL
  • Individual lectures, including all formats and task sheets, can be found here:
    

• 

  I. Concepts of Public Theology

  • 01: Why public theology? African, European, Asian, American perspectives URL
  • 02: Public theology and biblical exegesis URL
  • 03: The 'theology' in public theology URL
  • 04: The 'public' in public theology URL
  • 05: Public theology in an Islamic Perspective URL
  • 06: Public Theology and African Theologies of Liberation URL
  • 07: Public theology, social media and digitalization URL
  • 08: Contextuality and Intercontextuality in Public Theology URL
• 

  II. Doing public theology: Issues, agents and practices

  • 09: Politics, democracy, civil society in a globalized world URL
  • 10: Creation and sustainable development URL
  • 11: Ways of Life and Human Rights URL
  • 12: Science, learning, and faith URL
  • 13: Blessed are the Peacemakers URL
  • 14: Gender and sexuality URL
  • 15: Faith actors in civil society: between civil commitment and resistance URL
  • 16: Local Faith Communities - Religious Leaders: Public Appearance and Leadership URL
  • 17: Education, agency and the public URL
  • 18: Voicing International Issues: Public Theology on an International Scale URL
  • 19: Prosperity, Work and Economics URL
• 

  III. Conclusion

  • 20: Approaches to public theology: two conversations on doing public theology URL