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Call for papers

The Oxford English Dictionary describes a “limen,” which is the substantive from which the adjective “liminal” is derives as follows: “The limit below which a given stimulus ceased to be perceptible; the minimum amount of nerve-excitation required to produce a sensation.” It also notes that “limen” is Latin word meaning threshold.

The Winter 2027 volume (v48, no.1) of Consensus is concerned with those thresholds, or limits, that occasion the arrival of theological insights not previously perceptible. Human life is, in many ways, constituted by such divides: birth, death, and a cluster of natural, social, and spiritual limens the disrupt, complete, initiate, and/or obliterate what have become for us theological common sense. Contributors are invited to explore the crux of a limen from the perspective of their theological discipline, be it historical, post-colonial, biblical, practical, systematic, constructive, etc. How do these liminal experiences affect the method, content, and norms of the task of theology, or one might say, the mode of God-talk?

Possible Topics of Interest

  • The release of the TRC report
  • Becoming a parent
  • The war in Ukraine
  • The industrial revolution
  • The experience of coming out

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