Doctoral Colloquium 2026 – Tuesday, September 1
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CONCEPT BASED ON 2025
| 7:30 – 8:00 | Breakfast |
| 8:15 – 8:45 | Chapel (M. Theocharous) |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Student Presentations
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| 09:55 – 10:40 | Student Presentations
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| 10:40 – 11:05 | Coffee Break |
| 11:05 – 13:00 | Departmental Meetings OT – LCCS 0103 (evening meeting) NT – Basement HT – LCCS 0104 ST – LCCS 0102 PT – TBA RM – LCCS 0103 |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Professors to meet (LCCS 0103) |
| 14:30 – 17:30 | Defence: ?? (chapel) Followed by Reception |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Possibility for appointments |
| 18:00 – 18:30 | Prayer (chapel) |
| 18:30 – 19:30 | Dinner |
| 19:30 – 21:30 | Possibility for appointments |
Doctoral examinations (closed meetings)
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Abstracts
Student Presentations
R. Coleman (RM): Toward a Dialogical Christology: Academic Reflection and Grassroots Experience in Ghanaian Christianity
This paper examines the tension between academic and grassroots Christologies in African theology using the example of Ghana. Through dialogue between the theoretical models of Pobee and Bediako, who present Jesus as the “Great Ancestor,” and the empirical research by Stinton and Clarke, a significant disconnect is highlighted. While academic theologians emphasize cultural themes such as ancestor and chief, grassroots Christians identify Jesus primarily as Savior, Messiah, and Healer. This disconnect reflects a methodological blind spot of African theology in treating theology as a top-down process rather than dialogically. The paper advocates for critical exchange between systematic reflection and experiential wisdom.