Keywords
Methodology, model, public theology, public policy, common life, ethics
Abstract
That public theology is relevant to public policy debates and formulation should be self-evident. After all, public theologians aspire to develop ethical frameworks and discourses about how we should live together in plural civil societies. They offer public theology as a form of discourse. Unfortunately, they have largely failed to explicitly develop a procedural method of ethical analysis relevant to public policy decision-making.
This paper proposes an ethical methodology as a form of public discourse, a meta-ethical model showing how themes, concerns, and insights of public theology can be systematically organized into practical policy arguments. It provides a robust “mechanics” to aid public theologians prepare ethical analyses for public policies.
Recommended Citation
Wariboko, Nimi
(2010)
"Ethical Methodology: Between Public Theology and Public Policy,"
Journal of Religion and Business Ethics: Vol. 1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://via.library.depaul.edu/jrbe/vol1/iss1/4
