This course deals with the place and role of the public theologian by looking at some of the historical and theological rationale, and practice of theology in the public sphere. Participants will discuss Karl Barth’s thinking regarding spheres and the Kingdom of God, in addition to discussing the prophetic tradition, the Civil Rights Movement and liberation theology. Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther, Jr., James Cone, Cornel West, Anne Lamott, Desmond Tutu, David Gitari and Oscar Romero will be the case studies of theologians in the public sphere.