What Does Theology Do, Actually?
What Does Theology Do, Actually? is a symposium and book series devoted to transcultural and transdisciplinary analysis of evolving forms and functions of the traditional Christian-theological disciplines. Central to the purposes of the What Does Theology Do, Actually? series is to observe, document, and describe the functions of theological knowledge production and communication as that knowledge/those communications are experienced, cultivated, and used in varying knowledge production contexts. WDTD seeks not to do theology but to observe what theology does.
What Does Theology Do, Actually? 1
What Does Theology Do, Actually? was held from 24-24 May 2019 and started the symposium and book series.
What Does Theology Do, Actually? 2
What Does Theology Do, Actually? 2 was held from 9-10 July 2021 and devoted to the field of Exegesis.
What Does Theology Do, Actually? 3
What Does Theology Do, Actually? 3 was held from 7-9 July 2022 and devoted to the discipline of Church History with an ecumenical emphasis.
What Does Theology Do, Actually? 4
What does Theology Do, Actually? 4 will be held from 31 May-01 June 2024. The focus of the conference this year will be: "On loci and Locations in Systematic Theology".
Book Series
»What Does Theology Do, Actually? Observing Theology and the Transcultural« is to be the first in a series of 5 books, each presented under the same question – »What Does Theology Do, Actually?«
Interview with Sociologist of Religion Grace Davie
Leading up to the symposium "What Does Theology Do, Actually?", sociologist of religion Grace Davie speaks with Matthew Ryan Robinson about: 1) viewing theology and theological discourses as social artifacts, embedded in particular situations, and 2) what the non-essential and evolving nature of culture might mean for thinking about "intercultural" theology.
Videorechte: Matthew Ryan Robinson
