#Theologidons: Theologians on Mastodon and Fediverse (Responses)

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What name do you wish to be listed

What is your Mastodon handle (@user@instance.name)?

Do you have a Twitter handle you'd like to share? (to help people you know on Twitter find you on Mastodon)

What is (are) your main area(s) of research within theology?

What is (are) your main approach(es) (e.g. historical, systematic, contextual, practical, biblical, constructive...)

What's your main period of interest?

What other core disciplines do you cross into? (e.g. digital humanities for digital theology)

Short self-description/Mastodon info? (optional)

An earlier list of Religion scholars on Mastodon (Religidons) is managed by Alana Vincent (
@amv@religion.masto.host) - and many thanks to Alana for allowing us to adapt her sheet and form for this.

It is available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uBwBthFWMCTKxMEn6liNosDX8bOEmoNnFZnWD_xu_7E/htmlview

Should we pass on your details to them?

Digital Humanities, Narrative Theory, Linguistics, Theological Anthropology, Technology

Jeremy Pemberton

Retired priest/healthcare chaplain researching Church of England's ecclesiological response to decline

Christian Stroebele

philosophical theology, fundamental theology, interreligious relations, apophaticism, mysticism, metatheology

contemporary, medieval, 19th cent.

Department of Interreligious Dialogue, Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart / coordinating Theological Forum Christianity - Islam

Theology of Mission, World Christianity,

Study of Religions, Anthropology, Biblical Studies, African Studies

Founder of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide (1996) and now, in retirement, a Research Associate at CCCW and Assistant Bishop, Diocese of Ely, having served as Mission Theologian in the Anglican Communion, Bishop of Sherborne, Vicar of Islington, Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge, Vice Principal St Andrew’s College, Kabare, Kenya.

Environmental Theology, Environmental Ethics, Ecotheology, Rural mission and ministry

I am director of Theology and Education at the John Ray Initiative and Associate Lecturer in Environmental Theology at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxford, UK. I am on the steering group for the Theological Colleges Environmental Network (TCEN) and on Grove Ethics editorial group. Ordained Anglican and serve part-time in Oxfordshire UK. #Environmentaltheology #ecotheology

digital theology, youth ministry, practical theology, pastoral theology

Social Psychology, Generational Theories, Digital Theology

I am a Maltese, Catholic priest and has graduated with an MSc Informatics from the University of Malta and with an MA in Digital Theology from the University of Durham. Am currently reading for a PhD at the Department of Pastoral Theology at the Faculty of Theology in the University of Malta, where I am also a Visiting Lecturer. My research attempts to develop a pastoral language to engage the Maltese Gaming Generation (aged 10 – 25 years).

Jonathan Downie

I'm interested in the practices of multilingual church

I'm peeping in from the completely different field of Interpreting Studies

spirituality, formation, contextual, child theology, new testament theology, ecotheology, community organising as a theology

NT, eighteenth century, contemporary

doctrine of god, christology, anthropology, hamartiology, digital theology, queer theology

systematic, constructive, liberationist, queer-feminist

Digital theology; world Christianity; Public theology

Andrew Fouts (Ministry Misfit)

American Evangelicalism, Ecclesiology, Sports Ministry, Multi-Ethnic Ministry, Missiology

Historicist hermeneutic, systematic, sola scriptura

Graeme Holdsworth

Long distance cyclist who happens to be the Vicar of Marsden and Slaithwaite in West Yorkshire

sacraments, scripture, catechesis, mystagogy

Practical, as focused on pastoral work

Early church and the desert fathers/mothers

Studying theology as part of my formation for the permanent diaconate.

Emilie K Grosvenor

Feminist theologies, eco-theologies, Mariology, and popular religion

Political Theology, Critical White Theology, Critical Masculinities, Ecotheology

Practical / Contextual / Interdisciplinary to

rev. dr. derrick l. watson

creative, ethnographic making and interrupting of everyday common places

contextual, practical, interpretive, wisdom, creative, local

ministry, architecture, the city & critical theories, Deleuze & continental philosophy, ethnography, crafting, street art

rev. dr. working on practices of textile poietics through the local ministry of Cathcart Baptist Church in Glasgow; minister, http://cathcartbaptist.online, Glasgow,

Christian Ethics, disability theology, virtue ethics, abuse.

Contemplative, Mysticism, Progressive,

Pretty much the entire history

Implicit religion, lived theology, ordinary theology

I am a part-time post-graduate researcher at Queens Foundation, Birmingham, preparing a PhD proposal under their partnership with VU Amsterdam. I will be asking whether implicit contemporary religiosity can usefully be analysed with the tools of practical theology, using The Repair Shop as a case study. Professionally, I am retired after a career working in tax.

Practical Theology, Faith Development, Theological Education, Medieval Mystics, Youth Ministry

Tutor in Pastoral Theology at Ripon College Cuddesdon. Vice-Chair of BIAPT.

Naomi Lawson Jacobs

Liberation theology, practical theology, sociology of religion

Co-author, ‘At the Gates: Disability, Justice and the Churches’ (Darton, Longman and Todd) with @emjric. Independent researcher. Disabled and neurodivergent.

Trying to waste my time with God.
Writing a big bag of bible study notes at Theologicus.
StarCraft 2 Elderly.

Melissa Bennett, M.Div.

Native American spiritualities, Norse shamanism, Christian Mysticism, Intersections of faith and culture.

Then and Now and What's Coming Up

Spiritual Care, Healing Justice, Creative Writing, Arts, Storytelling & Storylistening

Melissa Bennett, M.Div. is a descendant of the Umatilla, Nimiipuu, Sac & Fox, and Anishinaabe Peoples. She is founder and chaplain of Nnoshé's House (aka Auntie's House) - an online space providing spiritual care tools and resources for people on the spiritual/religious margins. Melissa is a writer, storyteller, storylistener, educator, tarot reader, medium, and chaplain whose work is rooted in healing justice and the traditions of her Indigenous and Nordic ancestors.

Social Ethics: war/peace, democracy, cyber ethics

Modern/Contemporary, Renaissance/Early Modern

shame, ministry, paediatric spiritual care

Freelance theological educator, researcher, author, mentor, spiritual accompanier

Liturgics, Church History, Soteriology, Incarnational theology

Just your average, run-of-the-mill Anglo-Orthodox elder millennial obsessed with all things Christmas who is trying to be a decent husband and exceptional dad.

theology and literature, theology and culture, theology of myth

African Christianity, Practical Theology, Reconciliation

arts, aesthetics, music, trauma studies, death studies, philosophy, literature

Associate Professor of Theology, University of Divinity, Australia

Visiting Professor of Anglican Studies, Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary in New York

Biblical studies, Old Testament theology, cultural theology, practical theology

Fellow for Public Engagement, Tyndale House, Cambridge; part-time PhD (OT prophets & contemporary media)

Barth, Kierkegaard, theology and science

Ecclesiology, Reformed theology, ecumenical theology, theological ethics, global Christianities; theologies of Augustine of Hippo, Johann Baptist Metz

Systematic, constructive, historical, postcolonial

Business/economics, critical theories, Confucian philosophies,

Assistant professor of theology and ethics, and assistant director of the George Center for Honors Studies at Greensboro College

Daniella Zsupan-Jerome

Pastoral Theology, Digital Culture, Social Communication

Michael Adam Beck

Practical Theology, Liberation Theology of this place

missiology, political theology, spirituality, exousiology, liturgy, ecotheology

Work as university chaplain and part-time tutor in theology, currently working on issues in Christian formation in climate emergency

I teach Biblical Hebrew, exegesis, and biblical theology. My research has focused mostly on the Pentateuch. Other interests include digital humanities and language acquisition.

Catholic ethics; Ecological ethics; ecotheology; bioethics; Virtue ethics; Metaethics

Moral; applied ethics; metaethics; virtue theory

St. Pat’s alumna; prof of religion and ethics; ecotheology; Rochester resident; book lover; animal lover; maturity resistant

Twentieth-century developments in systematic theology in their political and cultural contexts (currently revising an article on Rowan Williams and decolonisation).

systematic, constructive (some historical and biblical).

19th-21st century (esp. post-WW2)

Theology and literature/performance/aesthetics (PhD was in 21st-century experimental theatre!)
"New materialism" and the environmental humanities

Rev. Michael Estep

Wesley, Spiritual Direction, Homeletics, Prayer

Monasticism, Liturgy, Contemplation, and our contemporary world

Contemporary or Medieval

Founder of Urban Monasticism. Living cross culturally in France from Minnesota.

Hebrew Bible; Biblical Theology; Interfaith theology

Frederike van Oorschot

Systematic theology, digital theology, public theology

Anna Sofia Salonen

food, waste, inequality, lived religion, diaconia

Practical theology, sociology of religion, qualitative methods, creative approaches

Systematic Theology, apocalyptic, political theology, theology of animals,

Theologe, Gandpa mit Gitarre, Wanderer (manchmal auch zwischen Welten)

Systematic Theology, dogmatics, Study of Diaconia, digital theology, pedgagogy, ecclesiology, diakonia, disability, social exclusion, marginalization, global health

systematic, contextual, intersectional, empirical

digital humanities, digital theology, social ethics, social epistemology, welfare, education, civil society, global health

Queer theology, neurodiversity, public theology, post-christianity, pioneering

Christian Ethics, Latino Theology, Systematic Theology

Ancient (2nd cent. to 6th cent) and contemporary

Sanctification, ecclesiology, Wesleyan-Holiness theology

Historical, systematic, interdisciplinary

Postmodern, post-liberal, future trends

comparative theology, intercultural ethics, global organizational leadership studies

I Research how religious/ethical systems fund organizational systems behavior

Prof David Clough

Christian theology, theological ethics, animals

Chair in Theology and Applied Sciences, University of Aberdeen

Salvation Army Officer (Church Leader) in Belfast. Husband, father and missional thinker.

Scripture (1&2 Cor), doctrine, sacramentology, ecclesiology

Sessional Assistant Prof of Religion and Theology in Hamilton, Ontario

Rev. Eric Burrows-Stone

Historical, Biblical, Systematic, and Practical

I am a pastor who hopes to eventually pursue a PhD (focusing on missiology) and currently read, reflect, and write on the topic when possible.

practical, community, biblical, historical

first century and Medieval

ELCA Candidate for Word and Sacrament. Seminarian. Writer. Trans-Queer Theologian. Awen of Stories. Enneagram 2. Faith is my business. She/Ella/They

My Credo: Matter matters. All the creatures of God's good Earth matter. The poor of the Earth matter even more. And the whole cosmos matters infinitely. Everything I do in my own pilgrimage of faith and my own ecojustice activism is driven by this earthly but cosmic theological vision.

Jonathan Downie

Multiethnic and multilingual church, homiletics, church practice

Consultant church interpreter and Interpreting researcher

Patristic, medieval, early modern

https://twitter.com/ling_tim

Biblical Interpretation, Mission and Evangelism, Ministerial Formation

I lead an intentionally interdisciplinary team, our main approach is practical

At present contemporary practices of mission and evangelism

Biblical, Systematic, Historical, Sociology, Psychology, Management Studies

Director of Learning and Development at https://churcharmy.org/
Working on what we mean by 'effectiveness' in a world blessed by God's grace.

John Wesley, History and Theology of Methodism, Pneumatology

Liberation Theology, Theology of Resistance, Luther, Dorothee Sölle, Political Ethics, Identity and the Self

Reformation, 20the Century

Hans Frei, Postliberal theology, Gregory of Nazianzus, Sensitive Heritage, theology of Scripture, political theology

Contemporary, Modern, Early Church, 18th century

Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology, University of Chester

Integrative Transdisciplinary Theology through Sexual Embodiment

Contextual (de-)construction Perennial

Sexuology, Marriage, and Trauma

Well every other discipline, hence Trans-disiciplinary Theology

https://twitter.com/cloud_counter

ecotheology, systematics, panentheism, Priestly school

Systematic (upcoming PhD), biblical (Masters)

Any period I can coopt for ecotheology

Christian Humanist. Ecotheologian. Scientist. http://naturalphilosopher.podbean.com.