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This is a response to Gareth Jones's critique of Changing Worlds, arguing that while this critique largely misunderstands the approach taken in the book, it does raise important questions about the prospect of war in the modern world. Crucial differences are identified in the use of theological rhetoric as a means of resolving differences about the legitimacy of war in the modern world. Adapted from the source document.

A review essay on books by: (1)Stephen Pattison, The Challenge of Practical Theology (London: Jessica Kingsley, 2007); (2)John Reader, Reconstructing Practical Theology: The Impact of Globalisation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008); (3)Pete Ward, Participation and Mediation: A Practical Theology for the Liquid Church (London: SCM Press, 2007); and (4)John Milbank and Simon Oliver [Eds], The Radical Orthodoxy Reader (London: Routledge, 2009).

African theology has become a common commodity for discussion in the past five years or so. Increasingly, one get requests to write an article on African theology; and one meets people who jump up with the request, "Oh, tell me something about African theology," or the question, "What is African theology?" for which they expect a three-minute definitive answer. There are also people who do not feel comfortable when the term "African theology" is used. At the other end of the scale are people who get highly excited about the African theology, as though it promised to bring the Kingdom of Heaven finally to this earth.There is clearly a wide spectrum of popular expectations about African theology. But a lot of them seem to be very shallow, and founded :on wrong or naive assumptions.

Connection with Marxism; position of the Vatican; role of Protestant churches; Latin America; 3 articles. What they mean by socialism, by Michael Novak; Counter-liberation, by James V. Schall; U.S. Protestants and liberation theology, by Kerry Ptacek.

Identifying & distinguishing the dominant features of civil religion, political theology, & public theology is an important aspect of the trans-Atlantic conversation about the role of religion in the common life. Civil religion is often a form of patriotic self-celebration that in the West, & particularly in the US, has often been expressed in terms of Christianity. Its defect lies in its lack of transcendental & thus critical reference. Political theology attempts to meet this defect by bringing the disciplines of theology & critical thought to bear on the relation between politics & religion. Political theology, however, too often equates or reduces the public to partisan or governmental policy, & understands the state as the institution that comprehends & guides all other spheres of society. Public theology seeks to remedy this by insisting that institutions of civil society precede regimes both in order of occurrence & by right, & insists that theology, in dialogue with other fields of thought, carries indispensable resources for forming, ethically ordering & morally guiding the institutions of religion & civil society as well as the vocations of the persons in these various spheres of life. 32 References. Adapted from the source document.