Young Bin Moon constructs a public theology for the information age, appropriating Niklas Luhmann's systems theory. He argues that theological discourse is a communicative quasi-system optimizing religion's observation of divine manifestation, and its interpenetration with society, via recursive interactions with diverse social systems. Coherent conceptualizations of doctrines are offered: God as a communicative system sui generis marked by perfect divine media, Word and Spirit; creation as divine mediatization ad extra; humanity as Homo medialis or the codified co-codifier; revelation as religion's observation of God's interpenetration with the world systems. Theology, it is also argued, can contribute to the societal process of optimizing global justice by disseminating religious visions of justice in the public arena. weiterlesen