This invited Roundtable session will be a live conversation on the topic of the future of Wesleyan and Methodist Systematic Theology. The session will be moderated by Daniel Castelo (Duke) and Charles Austin Rivera (Wake Forest), who will ask questions such as "How does Wesleyan-Methodist theology need to change, given how it has been pursued in the past?” and “Historically, systematic theology has often been structured polemically, articulating ‘our’ theology over against ‘theirs.’ What role do you see for systematic theology for shaping Methodist identities in the very diverse and global present and future of our tradition?”
Acknowledging that systematic theology, as a mode of thinking and teaching, has never been the only way to teach Christian doctrine, also to be considered are the promise and/or challenges of this way of teaching in different pedagogical contexts, especially in light of the characteristically Methodist quest to unite "knowledge and vital piety."