Call for Papers - by October 15, 2013

Contextual Theologies and Pneumatology
March 24-25, 2014

At a time when Pentecostalism keeps growing in the global south, how do contextual theologians engage the doctrine of the Holy Spirit? What may be some of the distinctive features of a contextual approach to pneumatology? In other words, what do contextual theologies have to contribute to theological reflection on the Spirit of God, and how? This conference seeks to be a platform where such questions, as well as others related to the general theme, will be explored and discussed.

Keynote speakers

• Kirsteen Kim (Leeds Trinity University), author of The Holy Spirit in the World (Orbis/SPCK 2007), Joining in with the Spirit (SCM-Epworth 2010) and co-author of Christianity as a World Religion (Continuum 2008), has recently edited (with Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen and Amos Yong) Interdisciplinary and Religio-cultural Discourses on a Spirit-filled World: Loosing the Spirits (Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2013).
• Jacques Haers, sj (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is co-editor of Postcolonial Europe in the Crucible of Cultures: Reckoning with God in a World of Conflicts (Rodopi, 2007).

Application

Please send a short description of your proposal (1 page, 500 words maximum) as well as a short resume (professional responsibilities, level of studies) to Xavier Gravend-Tirole, at by October 15, 2013 (answers will be given by November 1st). Papers may be presented in French or in English.

Scholars whose paper has been accepted will be provided with housing and meals during their stay in Geneva (in certain cases partial funding for travel can be made available upon request).

Scientific committee :
Xavier Gravend-Tirole (University of Lausanne) and Christophe Chalamet (University of Geneva)

3 septembre 2013

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