Theology Without Walls Group
American Academy of Religion 2024
Session ID: M23-300
Theme: Publication Series: The First Five Books: Authors/Editors Panel
Saturday, November 23
3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Grand Hyatt-Coronado B (Fourth Level)
Theology Without Walls Publication Series, Caladium Publishing
This is a new series of books devoted to explorations in transreligious theology. The following are the first five titles to be published Fall 2024. An announcement about future publications and publishing opportunities will be posted annually by the first of the year. Each author will discuss his or her book.
Chair: Rita Sherma, GTU Center for Dharma Studies
Theology Without Walls: Founding Essays
Eds. Christopher Denny and Rita Sherma
Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age
By Jerry L. Martin
Confessions of a Young Philosopher
By Abigail L, Rosenthal
The Sacred / Secular Binary:
Challenging the Divide in University Culture and Democratic Societies
By Rory McEntee
Life Seeking Understanding:
How Spiritual But Not Religious and Other Seekers Can Construct Their Own Theology
By Hans le Grand
M24-302
Theology Without Walls Group
Theme: Explorations in TWW Systematic Theology
Sunday, 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-America’s Cup CD (Fourth Level)
This panel is TWW’s first attempt to construct theologies without walls on particular topics within systematic theology. It constitutes a start on TWW’s larger vision of assembling together an overarching wall-less systematic theology, or really many of them, since the pieces that we develop might cohere in various ways.
Chair: Jeanine Diller, University of Toledo
- Doctrine of God/Ultimate Without Walls:
Paul M. Hedges, Nanyang Technological University: “Thinking about G*d/s and Diversity: Polytheism in Christianity and Other Traditions as Multi-Devotional Praxis”
- Pneumatology/Spirit Without Walls:
Kip Elolia, Milligan University: “The Contribution of African Pneumatology to Systematic Theology”
- Soteriology/Liberation Without Walls:
Jon Paul Sydnor, Emmanuel College: “Suffering. Love, and Joy: Salvation Without Walls”
- Anthropology/Creation Without Walls:
Julius-Kei Kato, King’s University College at Western University: “What Can Theology Without Walls Contribute to a Secular Age?”
- Eschatology/Afterlife Without Walls:
Dan Carman, Boston University: “Sacramental Eschatology and Aesthetic in the Public Square”
- Experiential Starting Points:
Royce Anderson, Independent Scholar: “Exploring Experiential and Empirical Touchpoints in a Systematic Theology Without Walls”
M25-105
Theology Without Walls Group
Theme: Theology Without Walls Planning Meeting
Monday, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Balboa A-C (Second Level – Seaport Tower)
An open discussion of the present and future of Theology Without Walls.
Chair: Jerry L. Martin, University of Colorado, Boulder
Details TBA
M25-200
Theology Without Walls Group
Theme: Methods in Theology Without Walls
Monday, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Balboa A-C (Second Level – Seaport Tower)
This session will explore ground rules about sources, assumptions, methods and products for constructing systematic theologies without walls. After a reflection on ground rules implicit in TWW’s discussion last year, it will look at three proposed methodologies, and close with insights from the related project of comparative systematic theology.
Chair: Katherine (Trina) Janiec Jones, Wofford College
Jeanine Diller, University of Toledo: “Reflections on Methods from the Systematic TWW Panel”.
Mathias Schneider, University of Muenster: “Mapping Eschatology: Toward a Methodology for Theology Without Walls”
Perry Schmidt-Leukel, University of Muenster: “Religion as Landscape: Fractal Analysis as a Resource for Theology without Wall”
John Thataminal, Union Theological Seminary – “Learning as the Other: Participation as Method for a Theology Without Walls”