HORIZONS: ENCOUNTERING DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES
April 28–29, 2025 at Saint Paul University
Christian theology today stands at the intersection of multiple disciplines, societies, cultures, and spiritualities. This reality calls for emerging scholars to embrace an openness and collaborative spirit, engaging with diverse perspectives and exploring new horizons. In a globalized world, the diversity of viewpoints and approaches becomes essential for understanding and addressing contemporary challenges, particularly those experienced in the existential margins and peripheries of society. While opportunities to respectfully encounter the perspectives of others can be scarce in our polemically-oriented world, this colloquium aims to provide emerging scholars with a stimulating and collegial environment within which to foster constructive dialogue.
In the ongoing conversation between faith, reason and culture that Saint Paul University seeks to promote, heterogeneity and diversity are strengths that can open up our horizons, not simply as scholars, but also as human persons. The doctoral students of Saint Paul University’s Faculty of Theology therefore welcome presentations oriented around these themes. They particularly encourage submissions that embrace interdisciplinarity or otherwise innovative approaches to scholarship and consider subjects such as, but not limited to:
- Interreligious and intercultural dialogue
- Ecumenical dialogue and inter-church relations
- Religion in the public sphere – sociology of religion
- Indigenous theology and indigeneity
- Christian spirituality and spiritual traditions
- Liturgy, worship, and ritual practices
- Science and emerging technologies
- Ecology and environmental protection
- Vulnerable persons and abuse crises
- Ethics, bioethics, and healthcare
- Social sciences and the humanities
- Social justice and transformation
- Christian art and literature
Dialogues with:
- Patristics
- Historical theology
- Systematics
- Biblical hermeneutics
We invite emerging scholars to submit their proposals for presentations at our second annual colloquium via email to colloquium-colloque@ustpaul.ca.
Please include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes and followed by ten minutes of questions and/or discussion.
Submissions will be received until January 17, 2025. Scholars will be informed by February 14 whether their proposals have been accepted.
For more information, contact colloquium-colloque@ustpaul.ca.
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