What Does Theology Do, Actually?

»What Does Theology Do, Actually? Observing Theology and the Transcultural« is to be the first in a series of 5 books, each presented under the same question - »What Does Theology Do, Actually?«, with vols. 2-5 focusing on one of the theological subdisciplines. This first volume proceeds from the observation of a need for a highly inflected »trans-cultural«, and not simply »inter-cultural«, set of perspectives in theological work and training. The revolution brought about across the humanities disciplines through globalization and the recognition of »multiple modernities« has introduced a diversity of overlapping cultural content and multiple cultural and religious belongings not only into academic work in the humanities and social sciences, but into the Christian churches as well.

Dr. Matthew Ryan Robinson, Ph.D. is Research Associate in the Protestant Theological Faculty at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn. His is the author of Redeeming Relationship, Relationships that Redeem: Free Sociability and the Completion of Humanity in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher (Mohr Siebeck 2018) and, with Evan F. Kuehn, Theology Compromised: Schleiermacher, Troeltsch, and the Possibility of a Sociological Theology (Lexington Books / Fortress Academic 2019).