This panel is sponsored by the Journal TheoRèmes, and three different institutions involved in academic theologyChristian theology, as an academic discipline, is challenged everywhere in Europe, both from the point of view of societies, and from the Churches. At the same time, there is a growing political demand for Islamic theology in academia, as a possible way to build a counter-discourse to radical Islam.What are the conditions necessary for theology to be legitimately present within European academic institutions? What is the relation of theology to other academic sciences (especially: religious studies, Islamic studies, philosophy, etc.)? What are (and should/could be) the relations between 1) academy and society, and 2) theology and religions. What can be reasonably expected from academic theologies, from a political and social point of view? We will here particularly focus on the relation between theology and religious communities, and between theology and academia.
Chair:
- Anthony Feneuil (Université de Lorraine)
Panelists:
- Anthony Feneuil (Université de Lorraine) - Church Dogmatics without a Church?
- Peirce Yip (LMU München) - “Chasing one another’s tails”: Mascall on the academic abolition of theology
- Ghislain Waterlot (University of Geneva) - It is in a secularized society that theology is most stimulating. The conditions of the contemporary debate
- Francis Messner (Université de Strasbourg) - Entre théologies et sciences des religions? Le statut juridique du département de théologie de l’université de Lorraine
- Sophie-Hélène Trigeaud (Université de Strasbourg) - Academic Theology from a Sociological Standpoint
- Yves Meessen (Université de Lorraine) - Self-Involvement as Truth Criterion for Theological Statements
- Abou Ramadan (Université de Strasbourg) - Muslim minorities in the West:Adaptation of islamic theology to secular and democratic society
- Ana-Magdalena Petraru (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Bringing Bible Translation into Play to the Theological English Classroom
Language: English
