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WCC shares insights during theological anthropology consultation at University of Münster

August 28, 2026 · 1 min read

WCC shares insights during theological anthropology consultation at University of Münster

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Fri, 08/28/2026 - 15:47

World Council of Churches (WCC) programme director for Life, Justice, and Peace Rev. Dr Kenneth Mtata spoke during an international consultation at the University of Münster, "Theological Anthropology in/between Contexts.”

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Rev. Dr Kenneth Mtata, World Council of Churches programme director for Life, Justice, and Peace.

Photo: Ivars Kupcis/WCC

The conference, convening 27-30 August, is examining theological anthropology from intercultural, postcolonial, and liberationist perspectives by scholars of African, Asian, Latin American, European, and American descent.

Contributions to the conference acknowledge that changing geopolitics challenges the understanding of rules-based order, international relationships, human rights, and democracy. Participants are noting that it is necessary to lift up new theological and interreligious anthropologies emerging from the sociopolitical margins, and that different ways of learning and knowing must be honored, recognizing that cultural and religious…

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Helen Baker
Interesting to see the conference pulling in voices from so many different continents. I wonder how the “sociopolitical margins” part plays out when you’re actually sitting in a German university lecture hall, though. Did Mtata mention any specific examples from African contexts that surprised the European scholars?
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