Interdisciplinarity in Theological Identity / Education / Research in a Post-secular Age

What is it about?

As the secular age recedes, which societal change includes the certainties of modernism and the uncertainties of post-modernism, a more balanced, less naïve era unfolds around us. This is usually called the post-secular era (and at times, religious realism or theological realism). Faith, including atheist faith orientations, is something normal, unexceptional and present everywhere in life: in our thoughts, languages, habits; in politics and economics; in cultural and other activities. We have simply been training ourselves not to recognise faith / religiosity / spirituality everywhere around us. A more fully realistic, less reductionist understanding of the human condition can no longer ignore who, what and how we are. This influences theological education directly.

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Why is it important?

Through post-secular (religiously realist / theologically realist) perspectives: * We reach a more mature, a more fully realistic perspective on ourselves; * The continued influence of one of the strongest evolutionary impulses of homo sapiens, faith / religiosity / spirituality, is recognised rather than ignored (modernism) or sidelined (post-modernism).

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