St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology

Aims & Scope

The St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology is an online, free-to-access encyclopaedia of the highest academic standards, treating the full discipline of theology with rigour and clarity. Supported by St Mary’s College of the University of St Andrews and generously funded by the John Templeton Foundation, it will be comparable to, and to some extent modelled on, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, internationally recognized as a highly successful, authoritative resource and a driver of its discipline. Theology, as we understand it, is inquiry into the nature of divine or ultimate things, grounded in the metaphysical, epistemological, and normative commitments of particular religious traditions or practices. In an age where the study of theology is often displaced in academia by social-scientific approaches to religious practice, the Encyclopaedia offers a different approach: scholarship in the emic rather than etic mode, focusing on theological concepts, structures, and systems. The St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology will ultimately incorporate intellectual content from all major religious traditions, with an emphasis on material being written by scholars for whom these traditions are alive.

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