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Faith in the Academy - Theology Among the Disciplines
Postgraduate Conference of the Society for the Study of Theology

Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium – 28-30 August 2017

Conference Theme:
According to Thomas Aquinas, theology deals with everything sub ratione Dei, everything in view of God. Through the centuries, theologians have developed a specific and sophisticated language that signifies the particularity of Christian practices and reflections. In the modern university, theology has become a discipline among many others, and like other disciplines, it sometimes suffers from insularity and overspecialization. Many theologians however engage with literature and methods from other academic fields, most notably philosophy, the social and the natural sciences, and in recent years increasingly also with political theory and economics. The main challenge then is to find a common ground for understanding across a diversity of expertise and approaches.

Today, theology seems to have lost its dominant position in the European universities, and theologians often seek to collaborate with other academics in interdisciplinary projects. Apart from the challenges of interdisciplinarity, a younger generation of theologians is concerned about both the willingness of other academics to listen to theologians, and the intelligibility of the theological discourse in a secularizing culture. How does one bridge the gap between the academic disciplines? How can we bring theological insights into an interdisciplinary conversation?

Call for Papers:
The conference will offer a wide field to PhD-students and postdoctoral researchers to present a paper on either the conference theme or on their current research project. Papers will be accepted on the following topics:

Theology and Interdisciplinarity
Theology at the University
Theology and Philosophy
Theology and the Arts
Theology and Economics
Theology within the Humanities
Theology and Literature
Theology and the Sciences
Theology and Political Theory
Or any other topic that relates to your current research project

Please send your paper proposal (max. 250 words) before 15 May 2017 to Derrick Witherington: [email protected].
Notification of acceptance: Before 1 June 2017.