RT Article
T1 Confronting the Ideology Behind the Post-Truth Phenomenon: Outlining a Public Theology of Ultimate Concern
JF International journal of public theology
VO 15
IS 4
SP 533
OP 553
A1 Ho, Ben Siu-pun
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1780583338
AB Abstract The neologism ‘post-truth’ was declared to be ‘the word of the year’ in 2016 by the Oxford Dictionary. It came to prominence in the presidential election of that year in the United States and during the Brexit referendum. It represents the eclipse of a sense of shared objective truths and has become associated with terms like ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’ – and, with reference to Covid-19, conspiracy theories. The purpose of this article is to provide a theological engagement with this phenomenon; it does so by making a distinction between two types of response in the extant literature. Moreover, it offers a critique on the basis of theories of ideology and politics and draws upon the theology of Paul Tillich to offer a constructive proposal.
K1 Ultimate Concern
K1 Paul Tillich
K1 Ideology
K1 alternative facts
K1 Fake News
K1 post-truth politics
DO 10.1163/15697320-01540018