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Resources for Public Theology

Last updated on: June 11, 2026 at 12:19 pm by Ted Peters

Resources for Public Theology 2026-06-11T12:19:32-07:00 Ted Peters

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Resources for Public Theology

by Ted Peters

Public theology is conceived in the church, critically reasoned in the academy, and offered to the wider culture for the sake of the global common good.

Some loci within public systematic theology can be illuminative outside the church for making public policy. Public systematic theology is not narrowly apologetic. Rather, it gifts public discourse with discourse clarification plus worldview construction that leads all of us toward a global common good. For a Christmas tree surrounded by resources, click on the bold print.

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Manifesto Articles on Public Theology

Ted’s BOOKs on Public Systematic Theology

Videos on Public Systematic Theology

Patheos “Public Theology” Column

From Big History to Cosmic History: A Critical Response to Ted Peters

Patheos & Substack Columns on PUBLIC THEOLOGY

From Athens to Jerusalem: Introducing Public TheologyResour

The Public Theologian as Ecumenical & Ecumenic Pluralist

Public Theology, Discourse Clarification, and Worldview Construction

The Public in Public Theology

Video: WHAT IS PUBLIC THEOLOGY?, Multi-Faith Matters, with John Morehead

Substack PT 1012. Pax Lumina on Human Dignity: The Inclusive Legacy of Pope Francis

Patheos PT 1013. Political and Prophetic Public Theology

Substack Pt 3108 Global Network for Public Theology Statement

Reinhold Niebuhr Faces the Crisis in American Democracy

Substack PT 4030 Reinhold Niebuhr Faces Democracy in Crisis 30

Substack PT 4031. Niebuhr’s Children of Light 1. Redeeming America 31

Substack PT 4032. Niebuhr’s Children of Light 2. Redeeming America 32

Substack PT 4033. Niebuhr’s Children of Light 3. Redeeming America 33

Substack PT 4034. Niebuhr’s Children of Light 4. Redeeming America 34

Substack PT 4035. Niebuhr’s Children of Light 5. Redeeming America 35

The Lutheran Barmen Debate 2025

OPA, “We Belong, Not to Ourselves, But to Christ” 1

Substack PT 3257. Ted Peters, We belong, not to ourselves, but to Christ 2

Substack PT 3268 Duane Larson: “We Belong, Not to Ourselves, But to Christ” 3

Substack PT 3269 Duane Larson: “We Belong, Not to Ourselves, But to Christ” 4

Substack PT 3270 Duane Larson: “We Belong, Not to Ourselves, But to Christ” 5

Substack PT 3271 Larry Ball: We Belong 6: Presbyterians Debate Christian Nationalism

Substack PT 3273 Duane Larson, We belong 8, Response to Ball and Denzler

Substack PT 3274 Ted Peters: We belong 9: Lutherans Doing Public Theology

Substack PT 3275 Jennifer Hockenbery, “We Belong, Not to Ourselves, But to Christ” 10

Substack PT 3276 Fritz Lampe, We Belong 11: Christian Nationalism as a Cultural Phenomenon

Substack PT 3277 Fritz Lampe, We Belong 12: Contextual Frameworks of Christian Nationalism

Substack PT 3278 Fritz Lampe, We Belong 13: Christian Nationalism Unpacked

Substack PT 3279 Fritz Lampe, We Belong 14: Engaging Christian Nationalism

Substack PT 3280 Ted Peters: We Belong 15: Religious Liberty vs Christian Nationalism

Substack PT 3281 Paul Chung, We Belong 16: Justification and Justice

Patheos PT 3282 Corruption and Cruelty without Conscience

Substack PT 3283 Antisemitism and Scapegoat Confuzzlement

Substack PT 3284 Between Paul Revere and Chicken Little

America 2026

Substack PT 4010. Redeeming America’s Humanitarian Care: Comparing compassion, cruelty, and callousness

Substack PT 4011 Might Stanley Hauerwas help redeem America? Redeeming America’s Future 3

Substack PT 4012 Love as a Political Program. Redeeming America’s Future 4

Substack PT 4013 Love Melts Ice. Redeeming America’s Future 5

Substack PT 4014 Saving Democracy with Martin Luther King: The Church as the Conscience of the State. Redeeming America’s Future 6

Substack PT 4015 Revenge in the Voice of Satan: Choose Love for America’s Future 7

Substack PT 4016 POTUS Power over Life and Death: Redeeming America’s Future 8

Substack PT 4017 Countering the Cursing in American Language. Redeeming America’s Future 9

Substack PT 4018 Public Theology, Political Symbolization, and Discourse Clarification. Eric Voegelin on Redeeming America’s Future 10

Substack PT 4019 Election Day Weather Report: Storm. Tripp Fuller on Redeeming America’s Future 11

Patheos PT 4020. Changing Election Day 2026 Weather. Marc Elias on Redeeming America’s Future 12

Substack PT 4021. War, the Man of Lawlessness, and the Catechon. Redeeming America’s Future 13

Substack PT 4022. Lutheran Protesting Tyranny Church. Redeeming America’s Future 14

Substack PT 4023. The winds of America’s next wars are already blowing

Substack PT 4004. Are the winds of America’s next war still blowing? Jingoism

Substack PT 4005. Is America being overrun by Sharia law? Can the Catechon restrain the Three Sons of Perdition?

Substack PT 4006. Does Heaven Bless the Authoritarian Ruler? America’s King at Prayer

Substack PT 4007 Redeeming America’s Justice ONE. The U.S. Department of Just-Us

Substack PT 4008 Redeeming America’s Justice TWO. The U.S. Department of Just-Us

Substack PT 4009 Redeeming America’s Justice THREE. The U.S. Department of Just-Us

America 2025

Substack PT 4003. Are the winds of America’s next war blowing?

Substack PT 4004. Are the winds of America’s next war still blowing? Jingoism

Substack PT 3258. Has the Rolling Coup D’etat begun?

Substack PtT3259. Washington’s Coming Techno-Monarchy

Substack PT 3260. Plundering Social Security

Substack PT 3262. DOGE Fires the Holy Spirit

Substack PT 3263. Persecuting Christians in America?

Patheos PT 3264. Do Scapegoats Purify America?

Substack PT 3266 Stupidity Exceeded by Perfidy

Substack PT 4005. Is America being overrun by Sharia law? Three Sons of Perdition

Substack PT 4006. Does Heaven Bless the Authoritarian Ruler? America’s King at Prayer

Substack PT 4007 Redeeming America’s Justice ONE. The U.S. Department of Just-Us

Substack PT 4008 Redeeming America’s Justice TWO. The U.S. Department of Just-Us

Substack PT 4009 Redeeming America’s Justice THREE. The U.S. Department of Just-Us

America 2024 and Christian Nationalism

PT 3200 Christian Nationalism Resources

PT 3212 A More Compassionate America? Trump Tyranny.

PT 3213 Christian Nationalism versus the Vermin Curse

PT 3214 Does Anti-White Christian Nationalism Scapegoat Evangelicals?

PT 3215 Evangelicals Against Christian Nationalism

PT 3216. Power vs Goodness in 2024

PT 3218 Get Your Trump Bible!

PT 3219 Who is Afraid of Christian Nationalism?

PT 3220 A Christian Nationalist Hornets Nest?

PT 3221 Anti-Christian Nationalist Progressives: Pamela Cooper-White

PT 3222. God Made Trump. Really?

PT 3223. Mirroring Russian Christian Nationalism

PT 3230 Measuring Christian Nationalism, Part 0

PT 3231 Measuring Christian Nationalism, Part 1

PT 3232 Measuring Christian Nationalism, Part 2

PT 3233 Measuring Christian Nationalism, Parts 3,4

PT 3235 Measuring Christian Nationalism, Parts 5,6

PT 3237 Gender and Race in Christian Nationalism, Parts 7,8

PT 3238 Roger Olson on Christian Nationalism

PT 3239 ELCA on Christian Nationalism

PT 3240 Barmen on Christian Nationalism

PT 3241 Response to Underwood on Christian Nationalism

PT 3242 My Appeal to Heaven on Christian Nationalism

PT 3244 No Threat of Christian Nationalism

PT 3246 Project 2025 on Christian Nationalism

PT 3247 Anti-Anti-Christian Nationalism, Part 1

PT 3248 Anti-Anti-Christian Nationalism, Part 2

PT 3249 Anti-Anti-Christian Nationalism, Part 3

PT 3250 Dancing the Lutheran Walz

PT 3251 Lutheran Public Theology

PT 3252 Is “Our Confession of Evangelical Conviction” the New Barmen?

PT 3253 Christian Nationalist Conspiracy Theory

PT 3254 End Christian Nationalism

PT 3280 Ted Peters: We Belong 15: Religious Liberty vs Christian Nationalism

Resources for Public Theology

Series: Economism vs Common Good

Politics vs Common Good Governing Part One

Economism vs Common Good Part Two

Economism vs Common Good Part Three

Economism vs Common Good Part Four

Just, Sustainable, Participatory, and Planetary. Common Good Part Five

Demythologizing the Myth of Economism

Contemporary Issues: Discourse Clarification & Worldview Construction

The Chaos Machine, Social Media, and Public Theology

A More Compassionate America?

Critical Race Theory in Classroom and Pew

Nazi Cursing of, and by, Russia

From Ukraine to World War Three in One Misstep

Gun Safety Prevarication and Legislation

Gun Deaths in Ukraine and the US

America’s Two Killing Fields

A Billion Bucks for Bullets and Blood

Taiwan Crisis?

Astrotheology as Public Theology

Resources for Public Theology

Race

A Progressive Race Narrative (Part 1)

A Progressive Race Narrative (Part 2)

Critical Race Theory in Classroom and Pew

Is Racism a Gospel Issue? Response to Grayson Gilbert

The Public Theology of Valerie Miles-Tribble

The Public Theology of the Black Pastor

Who are our Public Theologians?

The Public Theology of Rudolf von Sinner

The Public Theology of Katie Day

The Public Theology of Binoy Jacob

The Public Theology of Sharon Delgado, Part One

The Public Theology of Sharon Delgado, Part Two

The Public Theology of Robert Benne

The Public Theology of Paul Chung

The Drumbeat African Public Theology of Mwaambi G Mbûûi

The Public Theology of Valerie Miles-Tribble

The Public Theology of Kang Phee Seng

The Public Theology of Noreen Herzfeld

The Public Theology of Jennifer Hockenbery

The Public Theology of Sharon Delgado, Part One

The Public Theology of Sharon Delgado, Part Two

Karen Bloomquist: Another Worldview Must Be Enacted Today

Moscow: The Worst Public Theology

Moscow Again: The Worst Public Theology

Global Network for Public Theology Statement

Public Theology Resource Organizations

Global Network for Public Theology (GNPT)

Global Network for Public Theology Statement

Lutheran World Federation: Global Public Theology

Berlin Center for Public Theology at Humboldt University

Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology at Stellenbosch University

Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale University

International Public Theology in Forum 전체 글

Center for Public Theology and Public Policy, Yale Divinity School

Ebo Lectures in Theology and Public Life

Center for Theology and Public Issues, University of Otago

International Journal of Public Theology

PT 3200 Christian Nationalism Resources

Eco-Theology & Eco-Ethics

Resources for Public Theology

Ecotheology when “It’s Time to Act”

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part One: The Science

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Two: Kosher?

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Three: Hindus? Jains?

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Four: Mormons?

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Five: Muslims?

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Six: Catholic?

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Seven: Christian Vegetarian?

To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Eight: Food Theology?

Science and Theology of Nature

VIDEOS on Science & Theology

Star Trek Universe–Cosmic Thoughts (Paramount)

VIDEOS: The Cosmic Matrix, Science, SETI, and UFOs

VIDEO: The Future of Transhumanism

Robert John Russell: In Celebration

Quantum Theory, God, and Carl Peterson

Astrotheology as Public Theology

Is ETI calling “wolf”?

Can Science Dispense with Religion?

What is Truth?

What is Truth in Science and Theology? Part One

What is Truth in Science and Theology? Part Two

Science for the Church? Greg Cootsona

Prebunking Disinformation

Ecotheology when “It’s Time to Act”

The Danger of Free Will Denial

Quantum Theory, God, and Carl Peterson

Should Christians Dump Darwin?

AI, Religious Transhumanism, and Techno-Salvation?

VIDEO: The Future of Transhumanism as a New Religious Movement

Is AI a shortcut to virtue? To holiness?

The Transhuman, The Posthuman, and the Truly Human

Radical Life Extension? Cybernetic Immortality? Or Resurrection of the Body?

Religious Transhumanism 4: Evangelical? Yes

Religious Transhumanism 5: Mormon? Yes

Religious Transhumanism 6: Jewish? No

Religious Transhumanism 7: Buddhist? Yes

Religious Transhumanism 8: UU? Yes

Christian Transhumanism versus Transhumanist Christianity

Religious Transhumanism 10: Transhumanism vs Posthumanism

Religious Transhumanism 11: What about the body?

Religious Transhumanism 12: Catholic?

Religious Transhumanism 13: Methodist?

Religious Transhumanism 14: Scientific?

Religious Transhumanism 15: Lutheran?

Patheos H+ 2001: Is ChatGPT Intelligent?

Patheos H+ 2002: AI Warning: Utopia or Extinction?

Patheos H+ 2003: Your Robot Pastor is Here

Patheos H+ 2004: AI Brinkmanship

Patheos H+ 2005: Is AI a shortcut to virtue? To holiness?

Patheos H+ 2006: Creating an AI Co-Creator? Philip Hefner’s Mind

Patheos H+ 2007: Hopes and Hazards of AI

Substack H+ 2008: The Two Scares of Superintelligence

Substack H+ 2010: Christianity in the Age of AI

Substack H+ 2011: Will AI Develop Selfhood and Disobedience?

Substack H+ 1027 H+ 2012: TESCREAL, Transhumanism, and Cybertheology

Patheos H+ 2013: Is AI in the Image of God?

Substack H+ 2014: AI robots in the church pew? Prayer mat? Pulpit? Really? The future of AI in Cyber Religion

Substack H+ 2015. Chat Bot Spirituality and Human Extinction: Is cyber religion the opiate of the people?

Substack H+ 2016. Technological Salvation? Really? Part 1: Can AI and Transhumanism really deliver?

Substack H+ 2017. Technological Salvation? Really? Part 2: Peeking inside Adam Becker’s forecast of AI, Transhumanism, and Mars colonization

Substack H+ 2019. Superintelligence? No, say our AI techies.

Substack H+ 2020. AI Ethics at the Vatican: Jews’ and Christians’ “Joint Statement on AI Ethics”

Substack H+ 2021. Peter Thiel’s Apocalyptic Political Theology. Technological Salvation? Really? Part 3

Patheos H+ 2022. AI and Public Theology

Substack H+ 2023. How can AI make us truly human? Urian Kim on Co-Creativity and Moral Responsibility

Substack H+ 2024 Crustafarian Claw Theology. AI and the Church of Molt.

Substack H+ 2025. Technological Salvation? Really? Part 4

Thesis. Antithesis. Synthesis.

Substack H+ 2026. Technological Salvation? Really? Part 5

Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis Continued.

Concepts in Public Systematic Theology

Ted’s Books on Public Systematic Theology

Ted’s Videos on Public Systematic Theology

What is Public Systematic Theology? Part One

What is Public Systematic Theology? Part Two

What is the gospel?

What is creation?

What is Theological Methodology?

Easter’s Cosmic Meaning

VIDEO: God in Cosmic History Trailer

Universal Salvation, Grace, and Hellfire

VIDEOS: Lutheran Questions

VIDEOS: The Cosmic Matrix, Science, SETI, and UFOs

Series in Public Systematic Theology: CHRISTMAS 2022

O Come Emmanuel

House to Home for Christmas

Christmas Blues

Christmas Meditation 1: God Desired a Harlot with St. John Chrysostom

Christmas Mediation 2: The Word Became Flesh with St. Augustine

Christmas Mediation 3: Truth at Christmas with St. Augustine

Christmas Mediation 4: Mean Estate with Martin Luther

Resentment vs Compassion Part 10: Don’t trust your pastor

Resentment vs Compassion Part 11: Christian Nationalism vs Anti-Christian Nationalism

Literature and Religion

“For God and Country.”
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Leona Foxx Suspense Thriller Series

Literature and Religion

Series: The Wolves of Jack London

Jack London 1: The Call of the Wild

Jack London 2: White Fang

Jack London 3: The Sea Wolf

Jack London 4: Lone Wolf Ethics

Jack London 5: Wolf Pack Ethics

Jack London 6: Wolf & Lamb Ethics

Jack London 7: “The Red One”

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Ted Peters

Ted Peters pursues Public Theology at the intersection of science, religion, ethics, and public policy. Peters is an emeritus professor at the Graduate Theological Union, where he co-edits the journal, Theology and Science, on behalf of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, in Berkeley, California, USA. His book, God in Cosmic History, traces the rise of the Axial religions 2500 years ago. He previously authored Playing God? Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom? (Routledge, 2nd ed., 2002) as well as Science, Theology, and Ethics (Ashgate 2003). He is editor of AI and IA: Utopia or Extinction? (ATF 2019). Along with Arvin Gouw and Brian Patrick Green, he co-edited the new book, Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics (Roman and Littlefield/Lexington, 2022). The Voice of Christian Public Theology (ATF 2023) collects previously published essays. See his website, TedsTimelyTake.com, and Substack blogsite, The Voice of Public Theology Newsletter. His fictional spy thriller, Cyrus Twelve, follows the twists and turns of a transhumanist plot.

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About Ted Peters

For Patheos and Substack, Ted Peters posts articles and notices in the field of Public Theology. He is a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and emeritus professor at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union. His single volume systematic theology, God—The World’s Future, is now in the 3rd edition. He has also authored God as Trinity plus Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society as well as Sin Boldly: Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls. In 2023 he published. The Voice of Public Theology, with ATF Press. This year he has published an edited volume, Promise and Peril of AI and IA: New Technology Meets Religion, Theology, and Ethics (ATF 2025) and along with Arvin Gouw an edited collection, The CRISPR Revolution in Science, Religion, and Ethics (Bloomsbury 2025). See his website: TedsTimelyTake.com and Patheos blog site. You can read more about the author here.

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by Ted Peters

Public theology is conceived in the church, critically reasoned in the academy, and offered to the wider culture for the sake of the global common good.

Patheos & Substack Columns on PUBLIC THEOLOGY

Reinhold Niebuhr Faces the Crisis in American Democracy

Substack PT 4035. Niebuhr’s Children of Light 5. Redeeming America 35

The Lutheran Barmen Debate 2025

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America 2024 and Christian Nationalism

Series: Economism vs Common Good

Contemporary Issues: Discourse Clarification & Worldview Construction

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Who are our Public Theologians?

Public Theology Resource Organizations

Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology at Stellenbosch University

Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale University

International Public Theology in Forum 전체 글

Eco-Theology & Eco-Ethics

Science and Theology of Nature

AI, Religious Transhumanism, and Techno-Salvation?

VIDEO: The Future of Transhumanism as a New Religious Movement

Concepts in Public Systematic Theology

Series in Public Systematic Theology: CHRISTMAS 2022

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