Research Unit Systematic Theology
Coordinator: Terrence Merrigan
Secretary: Wouter Biesbrouck
- Research in Systematic Theology
- Professors
- All members of the research unit
- Research centres and research groups
- Activities
Research in Systematic Theology
In agreement with tradition, the scientific research conducted by the Research Unit Systematic Theology takes place from within a hermeneutical-theological perspective. This results in a historically founded and systematic-theologically explored reflection on the religious experience and expressions of Christians and Christian communities in past and present. Special attention is paid to the different hermeneutical fields of tension that arise when religious experience and its expressions are embedded in particular historical, cultural and societal contexts. The most important fields cull the tensions between religious experience and tradition, doctrine and praxis, faith and reason, faith and science, faith and history, faith and society and the theology of inter-religious dialogue. Within the same perspective basic themes in systematic theology are studied: doctrine of God, Christology and Trinity, doctrine of grace, ecclesiology, doctrine of creation and eschatology. This methodological approach requires acquaintance and dialogue with philosophy, human sciences (sociology, psychology, cultural anthropology a.o.) and natural sciences.
Professors
- Lieven Boeve (fundamental theology, postmodernity, theological method)
- Peter De Mey (ecclesiology, ecumenism, modern theology)
- Jacques Haers (liberation theologies, creation theology)
- Terrence Merrigan (Christology, interreligious dialogue, John Henry Newman)
- Kristof Struys (Christology, pneumatology, trinitarian theology, Walter Kasper)
All members of the research unit
Research centres and research groups
- Centre for Ecumenical Research
- Centre for Liberation Theologies
- Christian Self-Understanding and Interreligious Dialogue
- Research Group Theology in a Postmodern Context
Activities
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LEST: Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology
LEST is an initiative of the Research Unit Systematic Theology of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven. The congress is organized biannually under the auspiceds of one of the research unit's professors. The general LEST-board consists of prof. dr. Lieven Boeve, prof. dr. Peter De Mey, prof. dr. Jacques Haers and prof. dr. Terrence Merrigan, all members of the Leuven Research Unit of Systematic Theology.
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LOGOS: Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond Geloof, Openbaring en Spiritualiteit
These ‘Leuvense Ontmoetingen over Geloof, Openbaring en Spiritualiteit’ address specifically the translation of research results to a broad public and thus serves as continuous education of Dutch-speakers in the area of fundamental and dogmatic theology.
