The term popular theology refers generally to popular forms of communicating theology, which serve to popularize religious issues, making use of diverse media including literature, art, and a religious lecture culture that emerged in the 19th century [5]. Originally the term denoted a specific genre of theological literature in the late Enlightenment that was concerned with communicating theology on a scholarly but popular level to interested members of the intelligentsia.

While conveying the content of the Christian religion to literate laity had always been…