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Christian theologies today struggle to make themselves relevant and respected in public discussions. One reason is a tendency among theologians to restrict themselves to discussions among their own. In this way they seldom contribute to discussions and make claims that are heard as important for people not belonging to the world of faith and piety. This volume has a different goal. The intention is to bring updated and critical contributions to how theology can give substantial reflections relevant to a broader public. The volume takes its starting point from ongoing international discussions on the universal. From post-colonial and post-liberal positions one claim that universal claims are oppressive. There is a long history of how universal pretentions covered for white, male and European supremacy. For this reason one argues that only positionalities from particular position are able to give hope and future to oppressed people and environmental collapses. The contributions to this volume agree that there are toxic universalities that need to be strongly criticized. There are, however, also universalities that can defend the human and the nature. Scandinavian Creation Theology builds these universalities from life as given and pre-theoretical experiences. Here, there are potentialities for future non-toxic universalities.
About the author
Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen is Professor for Systematic Theology at the Department for Culture and Society, Arts, at the University of Aarhus.Carsten Schuerhoff ist Pfarrer in einer Vorstadtgemeinde Oslos und seit 2018 Mitglied der Forschungsgruppe Ethical spaces an der Universität Oslo.Trygve Wyller is Professor Emeritus in Diaconal Studies and Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo and Honorary Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has written extensively on space, ecclesiology, migration, phenomenology, ethics
and relevant Scandinavian Creation Theology-issues. Some of his recent publications are Diaconia/Empowering/Social Development, in the International Handbook of Practical Theology (2022); and Liberating, Spatial Theology. Some Reflections on How Theology Can Transform, in Dialogue with Gerald West (2024).
Email: trygve.wyller@teologi.uio.no
Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg is associate professor in theological ethics at the Center for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University. Her research revolves around the role of religion in the public sphere and the role of the church and theology in a late modern polarized society. Currently, she is PI for a transdisciplinary project “Rooms for Aging – Existential Perspectives for Better Living Environments” with theologians and architects.Niels Henrik Gregersen is Professor of Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Copenhagen. He is PI of “Centre for Science and Faith/Center for Videnskab og Tro” (CVT) at UCPH, and also PI of the Research Project “CARNAL: A Bioethics of Body, Meat, and Flesh”, Faculty of Theology. In addition, he is President of the International Society of Science and Religion (ISSR), and a member of The Europena Society for the Study of Science and Religion (ESSSAT).Dr. Carla Danani ist Professorin für Politische Philosophie und Philosophie des Wohnens an der Universität von Macerata, Italien.Dr. Judith Gruber ist Dozentin für Systematische Theologie an der Katholischen Universität Leuven, Belgien.Dr. päd. Hans-Günter Heimbrock ist Professor für Praktische Theologie am Fachbereich Evangelische Theologie der J. W. Goethe Universität Frankfurt a. M.Dr. theol. Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati ist Professorin für Religionswissenschaft und Religionsgeschichte an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen is Professor for Systematic Theology at the Department for Culture and Society, Arts, at the University of Aarhus.Trygve Wyller is Professor Emeritus in Diaconal Studies and Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo and Honorary Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has written extensively on space, ecclesiology, migration, phenomenology, ethics
and relevant Scandinavian Creation Theology-issues. Some of his recent publications are Diaconia/Empowering/Social Development, in the International Handbook of Practical Theology (2022); and Liberating, Spatial Theology. Some Reflections on How Theology Can Transform, in Dialogue with Gerald West (2024).
Email: trygve.wyller@teologi.uio.no
Dr. Judith Gruber ist Dozentin für Systematische Theologie an der Katholischen Universität Leuven, Belgien.Dr. Judith Gruber ist Dozentin für Systematische Theologie an der Katholischen Universität Leuven, Belgien.
Summary
Christian theologies today struggle to make themselves relevant and respected in public discussions. One reason is a tendency among theologians to restrict themselves to discussions among their own. In this way they seldom contribute to discussions and make claims that are heard as important for people not belonging to the world of faith and piety.
This volume has a different goal. The intention is to bring updated and critical contributions to how theology can give substantial reflections relevant to a broader public.
The volume takes its starting point from ongoing international discussions on the universal. From post-colonial and post-liberal positions one claim that universal claims are oppressive. There is a long history of how universal pretentions covered for white, male and European supremacy. For this reason one argues that only positionalities from particular position are able to give hope and future to oppressed people and environmental collapses.
The contributions to this volume agree that there are toxic universalities that need to be strongly criticized. There are, however, also universalities that can defend the human and the nature. Scandinavian Creation Theology builds these universalities from life as given and pre-theoretical experiences. Here, there are potentialities for future non-toxic universalities.
Foreword
Life as given is a decisive starting point for developing critical political and ecological theologies. Traditions developing from Scandinavian Creation Theology have potentialities to contribute to such theologies. Theologies based on phenomena of basic relationalities differ from postliberal tradition and re-open discussions of non-oppressive universals.
