Ronald Thiemann believes we live in a time and a culture where there is little agreement concerning many basic moral questions. He claims the line between private and public, between personal and political, can no longer be drawn with absolute clarity, and if moral decision making has an inevitable political dimension, then moral and theological reflection must seek to help Christians in dealing with the public aspects of their lives.
Robert F. Thiemann is Benjamin Bussey Professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise.