2026 Summer School of Theology: "Theological Imagination: Resisting Systems of Oppression, Injustice and Violence"
July 27–31, 2026
The Eastern European Institute of Theology invites you to join the 2026 Summer School of Theology: "Theological Imagination: Resisting Systems of Oppression, Injustice and Violence."The program will be held from July 27–31 online via Zoom.
This is the Institute’s fifth Summer School. Each previous session has focused on a distinct theme, addressing urgent social challenges and crises – especially those shaped or intensified by Russia’s war against Ukraine.
This year’s overarching theme is the human imagination and its role in shaping social and political life. The Summer School will bring together fourteen theologians, biblical scholars, philosophers, and artists from diverse Christian traditions and academic backgrounds to examine imagination as a vital resource for envisioning the future, critically engaging present realities, and responding responsibly to oppression, injustice, and violence.
This year’s program will open with a lecture by Judith Wolfe, Professor of Theology at the University of St Andrews. Her recent book, The Theological Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2024), inspired this year’s theme and will provide an important point of departure for the program’s discussions. The program will also feature a lecture by James K. A. Smith, Professor of Philosophy at Calvin University, who will present ideas from his recent book, Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark (Yale University Press).
Alongside Judith Wolfe and James K. A. Smith, this year’s school will feature an outstanding group of speakers, including: Davis Hankins (USA), Dan R. Stiver (USA), Ronald T. Michener (Belgium), Wojciech Szczerba (Poland), Yevgeny Ustinovich (Ukraine), Giles Waller (UK), Sunday Bobai Agang (Nigeria), Andrew Shepherd (New Zealand), Ciprian Gheorghe-Luca (Romania), Hanna Rijken (Netherlands), Gilija Žukauskienė (Lithuania), Adam Szumorek (Poland).
Details about the Summer School’s speakers and the full program schedule are now available on the Institute’s website. For more information and to register, follow this link.
