I am now attempting to develop
public criteria of ethical (personal and societal) transformation for practical theology.
I attempted, therefore, to
develop public criteria for the truth of art and religion as distinct but related disclosures of truth (for systematic theology).
A book on practical theology now preoccupies me in the same way that an earlier struggle for
public criteria in fundamental theology concerned me in the early «70s and the struggle for criteria of meaning and truth in the disclosures of the beautiful and the holy in the classic works of art and religion preoccupied me in the late «70s.
I have also tried to give more attention in several essays and one book (Plurality and Ambiguity) to the kind of
public criteria necessary to adjudicate the inevitable clashes between the claims to meaning and truth in both situation and tradition.
Council member Joe Borelli (R - SI) took issue with Columbus being considered for the review, and called on city officials to make
public the criteria by which the monuments will be judged.
The groups agree with the Comptroller that un-itemized state expenditures should be distributed by formula (like School Aid or CHIPS) or spent in a transparent fashion, subject to
clear public criteria like those used by the Environmental Facilities Corporation.
Academic theologies (with their focus on such questions as method, the disciplinary status of theology in the modern university, the relationships of theology and religious studies, and the development of
public criteria for theological language) are obviously related principally to the public of the academy.
For some of us the demand for
public criteria for all truth - claims remains both the initial impetus and the great hope for all contemporary theology, whether liberal or postliberal, neo-orthodox or neoconservative, modem or postmodern., reformist or revolutionary, contextualist or universalist.
Process theologians argue for a «public» theology, not limiting truth claims to a confessional stance with its own internal criteria, but open to
the public criteria of common human experience and rational inquiry.
This development supported our hypothesis, but we wanted to know what happened when that favorite also fit our betting against
the public criteria.
The Clippers are being hammered by sharp money and fit the ideal threshold for our betting against
the public criteria, but there's yet another reason to like LA's other team this evening.
Subjective judgments, an essential information source for science and policy, are problematic because there are
no public criteria for assessing judgmental truthfulness.