THEOLOGY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE

Abstract

This text expounds some reasons about why it is also a concern to Theology to intervene in the public field. Although the relation between Theology and the public field is something that already is given on, the important here is to specify the bases that the first one not only relates to, but is necessary to operate in the public field. In view of this, some philosophical and theologically main ele­ments are delimited to sustain that Theology, as discipline, consider itself as public actor. Theology, with its purpose and its task, must be available to participate in the public field, because it has something to offer in the social coexistence and at the search for the common good.