When we speak of public theology—that is, doing theology in public—we understand ourselves to be making visible religious logics intrinsic to pressing questions and issues of the day.
We affirm that the best scholarship is itself a public endeavor, necessarily collaborative, of fundamental importance to all. By foregrounding a question of common concern, and creating venues for shared exploration rather than authoritative pronouncements or presentations from experts, Being Human enables the collaborative work that makes scholarship a necessary, indeed invaluable, activity. Public scholarship as theological anthropology names our aspiration to what scholarship can, indeed must, be: common work for the common good.