PART I Situating the Debate

1 Progress in Theology: An Introduction

Gijsbert van den Brink, Rik Peels, Bethany Sollereder

2 The Metaphysics of Progress

Rene van Woudenberg

3 Brother Juniper’s Experiment ? and Five Better Ways of Seeing Progress in Theology

Gijsbert van den Brink

PART II Dimensions of Progress

4 Epistemic, Moral, and Religious Progress in Theology

Rik Peels

5 Synchronic Progress in the Understanding of Doctrine: A Marian Perspective

Michael Bauwens

6 Finetuning the Sources of Theology

Hans van Eyghen

7 Theology and the Hermeneutics of Testimony: Progress in Theological Interpretation?

Adriani Milli Rodrigues

8 Christian Theology as Comparative Theology: Going Comparative as Highway towards Progress

Veli-Matti Karkkainen

9 The Paradox of Progress: Theology and the Divided Brain

Oskari Juurikkala

PART III Case Studies

10 Freedom and Foreknowledge: A Case Study in Progress in Theology

Katherine Rogers

11 Epistemic Progress in the Divine Action Debate

Ignacio Alberto Silva

12 Theological Anthropology Progressing through Artificial Intelligence

Marius Dorobantu

13 Progress as Overcoming Theological Dissensus: Two Strategies in Ecumenical Dialogue

Cody Warta

14 Progress, Theology, and Climate Change: Creating Pandaemonium when Working for Paradise

Bethany Sollereder

PART IV Progress and Theology’s Place in the University

15 Epistemic Norms in Theology and Science

Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt

16 The Future of Protestant Theology ? An Epistemological Vacuum

Katrin Gulden Le Maire

17 The Place of Theology in the Secular University

Paul A. Macdonald, Jr.

Index