Ted Peters
This PUBLIC THEOLOGY Project draws sage insight from the wisdom reservoir of philosophical and religious thought to clarify public discourse and help construct a meaningful worldview. Today's digitized cacophony of competing worldviews can be overwhelming. The public theologian attempts to distinguish truthfulness from its detractors and to draw a comprehensive picture of reality in which everything is rightly related to the God of grace.
Public Theology is important because of the urgent need to clarify and rectify widespread misunderstandings regarding the alleged warfare between science and religion; refusal to listen to the scientific prophets who warn us about climate change and the coming ecological crisis; disbelief of scientific experts even in the face of the coronavirus plague; slowness to embrace the hard task of advancing economic justice and racial harmony; fear of Artificial Intelligence and robotics; and anxiety over contact with ETI.
I believe that a healthy public theology is conceived within the church, tested and revised in the academy, and offered to the wider culture for the sake of the wider culture.
Graduate Theological Union
Public theology is conceived in the church, critiqued in the academy, and meshed with the wider culture for the sake of the wider culture.
Brief definition of public theology
One chapter in the book, "AI & IA: Utopia or Extinction?"
AI prompts questions. If AI is actually intelligent does it have a self? Or, even a soul? Should we baptize intelligent robots?
Published in Origins, Bulletin of the International Big History Association
Theology Update interaction in Dialog, A Journal of Theology
Ecology, Futurology, and Eschatology may be the most important items on the public theologian's agenda.
Might the 2018 birth of two designer babies in China write the opening paragraph for the next chapter in the history of eugenics? The worldwide scientific commu
Christian Century article
The stars beckon the human soul to transcend itself. Scientists respond with Astrobiology and theologians with Astrotheology & Astroethics.
Snippets from the book, "UFOs--God's Chariots?"
Article in "Journal of Lutheran Ethics" illustrating themes from the book.
Inaugural Tuomo Mannermaa Lecture, University of Helsinki, 2017, published in Currents in Theology and Mission
Application of Rene Girard's scapegoat theory to discrimination and violence in society
CORAL Conference-Lutheran Interpretation of Contemporary Legal Issues. February 1, 2017 -- Routledge Book 2018, edited by Ron Duty and Marie Failinger, Luth
Scientia et Fides journal article
Presentation to SF Bay Area Transhumanist Society
Lecture at Budynek główny Akademii Ignatianum w Krakowie, Pokój, September 22, 2020.
Theology and Science article
Christian Century article based on a DOE research project
Religion in Life article
In this exercise in PUBLIC THEOLOGY, we adumbrate the positions of various world religions on reproductive cloning and stem cell research.
In this exercise in PUBLIC THEOLOGY, we present the science of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing with its ethical and religious implications.
In this exercise of PUBLIC THEOLOGY, we follow the Human Genome Project and analyze the Gene Myth.
