International Theological Camp - God: how do you talk about it? They tell of the power of your awesome works – and I will proclaim your great deeds. (Psalm 145:6)

International Theological Camp

Dates
When: 2018-08-11 - 2018-08-18
Arrivals from 17:30 of the 11 August
Ends at 09:00 of the 18 August

Well, talking about God and proclaiming his great deeds… But talking about who? And about who? 2000 years ago God spoke to us, and about 2000 years ago the words which are talking today to us about God have bin written, written in a language which is not ours. We already have difficulties to understand Shakespeare’s language and would like to find the truth in the Bible?

From God’s revelation we are seperated by by the large and horrible fosse of history (Lessing). History of faith and of religions always has been the history of attempts to cross this fosse, to find the words which are uniting God and the people. Already Paul, and then several schisms, amongst them the Reformation, start from the quest of speaking about God in a world in which the words are not speaking any more about God.

In the International Theological Camp 2018 we will try to find the right words, God’s words of today and our word’s to speak about God today. In a pluralistic context, with different ways of living our faith and in an international surrounding we will explore new ways of talking about God; we will seek for God where we never thought about to possibly find him. Across different people and cultures we will meet new perspectives of God and different wayz of speaking about faith – hoping that in the end we will find a common ground so we can dare the “jump into faith” (Kierkegaard) which makes us cross the fosse or history Lessing wrote about.