Author Description

This volume collects papers from the 10th and 11th conferences of the Comenius Committee of Protestant Theological Faculties in Central and Eastern Europe and the Netherlands: Roads to Reconciliation Between Groups in Conflict took place in Koma'rno, Slovakia, in 2015, Theology in a World of Ideologies: Authorization or Critique? was hold in Kampen, Netherlands, in 2018. The authors address a range of (inter)disciplinary issues, concrete questions and implications of the Christian faith for the contemporary world. These include exploring roads to Christian inspired individual and societal reconciliation, conflation(s) of theology and ideology, the ways in which core elements of Christian existence - (biblical) narratives, traditions, memory practices - contribute to erasing or maintaining the boundaries between theology and ideology, and how these elements contribute to religious mobilization.