Politics and religion
Public Theology for a Pluralistic World

Would the world be a better place if religion were removed from public discourse? In response to the affirmative answer given by secularists, Miguel Yaksic embarks on a deep and stimulating dialogue. He also discusses a growing neo-traditionalist trend in the Church that thinks the more secularized the world becomes, the more a clear and distinctive Catholic identity is needed; as if the Church had to withdraw from the world, returning to the sacristy. Both trends overlook what the author calls the irreducibly political character of the Christian faith. It is precisely the poor—those who are neither secularists nor neo-traditionalists—who need to continue believing in the public nature of Christian hope: the liberating promises of the God of Abraham and of Jesus Christ.