RTMed in Malta
Over the weekend of June 13–15 2025, the Theological Network from the Mediterranean (RTMed) held its annual international and transdisciplinary symposium “On the Routes of the Mediterranean: Methodological Guidelines for a Theology from the Mediterranean” at the Archbishop’s Seminary in Rabat
The RTMed network was established around the editorial team of the manifesto for a theology from the Mediterranean. The network’s members are researchers engaged in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work, with a strong focus on intercultural, interreligious, and theological dialogue.
This symposium brought together professors and researchers from across the Mediterranean region.
Method is the path through which knowledge is developed, and it is also an experience—an intertwining of thought and action. What path or paths open up for developing a theology that moves from the Mediterranean?
If the Mediterranean is “a system of roads” between lands and the sea (Fernand Braudel), the ways, the routes we are called to travel here are lived experiences and their narratives. A context of contexts, the Mediterranean provokes thought—particularly theological thought, through the interconnections of lived experiences that it offers to our gaze and our experience.
This symposium aimed to be both a moment of synthesis and further reflection of the work initiated by the Network regarding the methodology of a Theology from the Mediterranean.
An immersion in the context of the island of Malta and a systematic and creative reflection of the insights emerging from the experience we are engaged in, to continue questioning what it means to do theology on the shores of the Mediterranean—a significant step toward the shared development of a methodological elaboration of the Manifesto.
