Those of us working in academia are aware of the numerous crises on the horizon, for higher education. No academic field is immune, but some are more vulnerable than others. Theology is one of those: excluded from many public institutions, the field relies on seminaries for life support. But increasingly, seminaries are skeptical of the value of theology and are removing it from their curricula.
Is academic theology dying? Or is theology simply changing shape and form? This roundtable brings together scholars who have (at one point in their career) identified as theologians: graduate students, seminary professors, political theologians, comparative theologians, and those who have left the field behind. The discussion will bring a death studies lens to our conversation about theology as we reflect, together, on what it might mean to be part of a dying practice and what sorts of legacies we imagine it might have.
| Meghan Mercury, Graduate Theological Union | mmercury@ses.gtu.edu | View |