Esauntial Reading
His public theology — in book form.
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(IVP Academic, 2020)
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Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal
(IVP, 2022)
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Josey Johnson’s Hair and the Holy Spirit
(IVP Kids, 2022)
You see plenty of talk about public theology right now. A good amount comes from academia, and you get more than a few instances from guys who just tweet. It’s a term that appears to originate from the 20th-century historian and Lutheran minister Martin E. Marty, who used it as a contrast to civil religion — as an answer to it, you could say. The idea basically is this: words about God written
This story is from Common Good issue 09.