Public systematic theology necessitates engagement in interreligious dialogue and comparative theology when engaging in discourse clarification and worldview construction. Public systematic theology and comparative theology
On the one hand, I rejoice that representatives of various religions affirm freedom and human rights, values that arose during Europe's Enlightenment. And, they provide different theological underpinnings for such commitments. Yet, I fear that the indigenous symbols of ultimate reality whih enlivened historical religious traditions might get lost in the abstract supra-confessional philosophy of religion. Despite my fear, those in the 2023 Parliament of the World's Religions seem quite sanguine with their commitment to both metphyscial unity and ethical unity. Unity comes in ultimate and ethical forms at the Parliament of World Religions.