The Church in the Public shows how church/state dualism has corrupted the church's social witness and allowed neoliberal and neocolonial ideas to assert control of public and political life. Ahn argues for a public church, one that collaborates and cooperates with other public actors and entities in the promotion of a just social order.

Ilsup Ahn is Carl I. Lindberg Professor of Philosophy at North Park University, where he teaches ethics, philosophy, and theology. He is the author of Theology and Migration (2019) and Just Debt: Theology, Ethics, and Neoliberalism (2017).