LIMINA - Theological perspectives from Graz is the scientific open-access journal of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Graz. The thematic focus of LIMINA is on current transformation processes and is oriented towards the following questions: What are the socially, culturally, politically, religiously and ecclesiastically most challenging changes and upheavals of the present? How can these be addressed from a theological perspective? In what way do they require innovative methodological and interdisciplinary approaches? How do these changes and conflicts transform theology itself?

Announcements

Call for Papers: Church - Politics - Power. A theological perspective on new Christian right-wing networks

2026-07-14

LIMINA 10:2 (autumn 2027) explores the complex interrelations between Church—Politics—Power with a focus on neointegralism and corresponding phenomena of a “Christian right”. We want to create a dialogue between internal theological perspectives and external viewpoints (philosophy, political science, social ethics, sociology of religion, communication science, media studies, etc.).

The aim is to analyse current manifestations of these movements as well as their democratic and theological political implications, and to examine them through a systematic theological lens.

Deadline for outline submission: 15.12.2026

Current Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2026): Orientation

LIMINA 9:1 foregrounds orientation and aims to highlight possibilities for navigating a rapidly changing world. It also seeks to understand what gives rise to this need for orientation and what it is that humans ultimately seek—and how this may have changed in the context of current processes of transformation.

Published: 2026-05-15

Full Issue

LIMINA 9:1 (Deutsch)

Cover

LIMINA_9-1_Cover.pdf (Deutsch)

Title

1-4

LIMINA_9-1_Titel.pdf (Deutsch)

Contents

5-6

LIMINA_9-1_Contents.pdf (Deutsch)

Editorial

Editorial: Orientierung

Christian Feichtinger, Ralf Lutz

7-12

LIMINA_9-1_1_Editorial-Orientierung.pdf (Deutsch)

Editorial: Orientation

Christian Feichtinger, Ralf Lutz

13-17

LIMINA_9-1_1_Editorial-Orientation.pdf

Artikel zum Schwerpunktthema

What does Austria believe?

Practical theological perspectives on the formerly Catholic Austria

Regina Polak

18-37

LIMINA_9-1_3_Polak.pdf (Deutsch)

Muslim refugees’ search for normative orientation at the intersection of religion, law and everyday life in Eastern Germany

Abdelghafar Salim

38-79

LIMINA_9-1_4_Salim.pdf (Deutsch)

Orientation through philosophy

An overview

Philipp Thomas

80-97

LIMINA_9-1_5_Thomas.pdf (Deutsch)

Beyond Church, Society and Politics

Theological challenges and challenging theology in dialogue with indigenous worldviews

Ulrike Sallandt

98-117

LIMINA_9-1_6_Sallandt.pdf (Deutsch)

Gelassenheit as resistance against normative self-narrowing

Religious-educational perspectives on identity formation in the digital age

Maike Maria Domsel

118-144

LIMINA_9-1_7_Domsel.pdf (Deutsch)

Are you floundering or flourishing?

Resonance and meaning in an ethically ­privatised world

Michael Ackerl

145-170

LIMINA_9-1_8_Ackerl.pdf (Deutsch)

Finding Objectively Valid Orientation through Value Plurality

Andreas Mitterer

171-192

LIMINA_9-1_9_Mitterer.pdf

Orientation on the similar

Analogies for ethical wayfinding

Daniel Frank

193-220

LIMINA_9-1_10_Frank.pdf (Deutsch)

When Spiritual Robots Fail

AI-based robots, spirituality, and moral responsibility for bad outcomes

Mario Kropf

221-246

LIMINA_9-1_11_Kropf.pdf

Jesus the Jew as a linchpin for orientation in and for the Church in times of social climate change

Sonja Huber

247-264

LIMINA_9-1_12_Huber.pdf (Deutsch)

Loss, resilience and hope

A religious education perspective in late-modern ­society of loss

Vito Alexander Vasser Santos Batista, Stefan van der Hoek

265-283

LIMINA_9-1_13_VasserSantosBatista_VanDerHoek.pdf (Deutsch)

Open Space

Newsletter - Keep in touch!

284

LIMINA_9-1_Newsletter.pdf (Deutsch)

Call for Papers

Ideologien. „Überzeugungssysteme“ zwischen Vertrauen und Verdacht

Call for Papers | LIMINA 10:1 (Frühjahr 2027)

285-288

LIMINA_9-1_cfp_10-1_Ideologien.pdf (Deutsch)

Ideologies. “Systems of conviction” between trust and suspicion

Call for Papers | LIMINA 10:1 (Spring 2027)

289-291

LIMINA_9-1_cfp_10-1_Ideologies.pdf

Kirche – Politik – Macht. Ein theologischer Blick auf neue Netzwerke von christlicher und politischer Rechten

Call for Papers | LIMINA 10:2 (Herbst 2027)

292-296

LIMINA_9-1_cfp_10-2_Kirche-Politik-Macht.pdf (Deutsch)

Church—Politics—Power. A theological perspective on new Christian right-wing networks

Call for Papers | LIMINA 10:2 (Autumn 2027)

297-300

LIMINA_9-1_cfp_10-2_Church-Politics-Power.pdf

Imprint and Back Cover

301-302

LIMINA_9-1_ImprintBack (Deutsch)
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