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Environmental Justice as Counterpublic Theology: Reflections for a Postpandemic Public Andrew R. H. Thompson n the eve of the 2016 election, which ushered in the Trump era, an article by Alan Jacobs in Harper’s Magazine lamented the decline of Othe Christian public intellectual and noted the need for such figures today—what Jacobs describes as the “‘Where Is Our Reinhold Niebuhr?’ Prob- lem.” Jacobs has in mind the Christian social and political thinkers of the early and mid-twentieth century, such as Niebuhr, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, “and their fellow travelers,” who were willing to challenge the prevailing social order of the time. He characterizes Christian public intellectuals—what others might call public theologians—as follows: “They should be intellectuals who speak the language of other intellectuals, including the most purely secular, but they should also be fluent in the concepts and practices of faith. Their task would be that of the interpreter, the bridger of cultural gaps; of the mediator, maybe even the reconciler. Half a century ago, such figures existed in America: serious Christian intellectuals who occupied a prominent place on the national stage. They are gone now.” Jacobs is far from alone in voicing the need for a
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press
Published: Mar 24, 2021
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