Call for contributions: Spring 2025 issue on faith and language

We are looking for contributions (articles, academic interviews, theological reflections, creative compositions) on the role and limitations of language in the life of faith and the church.

Words play a key role in Christian faith: from Scripture, to public worship, to various levels of theological articulation, whether in academic discourse or in private devotional life. This issue of Theology in Scotland will seek to explore how language shapes, challenges, and perhaps sometimes limits, Christian faith, particularly in the context of historical or contemporary Scotland. What can be learned from different Bible translations, or in ways language evolves in the life of the church or in missional endeavours? What challenges are faced by those whose linguistic abilities are limited, or those who are non-verbal, when it comes to their belonging to a community of faith? What should be learned from their experience, or that of minority linguistic groups in Scotland? Contributions are welcome on these, and other, related questions.

If you are interested in submitting a contribution for this themed issue, please send your proposal/abstract to the Editor at editortisjournal@gmail.com. The deadline for proposal/abstract submissions is 1 November 2024. If accepted, the deadline for the final version of the article/contribution will be 10 March 2025. Further instructions on submitting to Theology in Scotland can be found here.