Non-binarity between natural law and theological life-worlds. Reflecting theologically on why churches can/might/should solidarize with migrant people.
How can Catholic Social Teaching and contemporary Protestant theology join in to critically comment the present restrictive migration politics in Europe and beyond? Based on a recent book Redeeming the Sense of the Universal. Scandinavian Creation Theology on Politics and Ecology by Trygve Wyller, Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg, and Niels Henrik Gregersen (Eds.), the webinar will reflect relevant theological arguments in favour of encountering migrants as humans, not primarily as migrants. There are significant similarities between traditions of a natural law based normativity and a normativity based on the givenness of human encounters and intersubjectivity. How to build a theology of migration based on the given life-worlds of all people?
Cecilia Nahnfeldt, professor in Practical theology at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. She has published on migration and theology, societal theology and diaconia and innovation.
Trygve Wyller, professor emeritus in studies in diaconia and contemporary theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo. He has published on Protestant fundamental theology, professional ethics, spatial studies, Scandinavian Creation Theology and migration studies.
Respondent: Taylor Ott, Assistant Professor of Theology and Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University in western New York. She earned her PhD in Theological and Social Ethics from Fordham University. Prior to starting at St. Bonaventure this year, she did a postdoc at KU Leuven, working on a project called “Dissenting Church.” Her book, published with Routledge in late 2024, is titled Conflict and Catholic Social Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Approach.