At the Threshold
At the Threshold

The Project

In theology there is a home for both the vast and the intimate. No question is foreclosed. Visually immersive, poetic, and global in scale, these short films invite viewers into a conversation about life and its limits which is as vibrant as it is challenging.

The Films

Judith Wolfe

Begin With the End

“We have to take seriously the claim that we do not yet live in the world as it will be, and as we will be, and that we have to live towards an eschaton, a presence of God in the world, which is not only not yet apparent, but is not even comprehensible to us. So how do we live authentically in this life?”

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Judith Wolfe, Professor of Philosophical Theology, University of St Andrews, Scotland.

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Lieven Boeve

The Open Narrative of Love

“For Christians, professing Christ is the interruption par excellence of history. It is this God and this interruption to which the Christian narrative bears witness. A witness that never attempts to completely grasp or contain this God. Belief in the resurrection is the sharpest expression of this. When narratives are forced shut, even unto death, God nevertheless still breaks them open.”

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Lieven Boeve, Professor of Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium, and Director-General of Katholiek Onderwijs Vlaanderen, the Flemish Office for Catholic Education.

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Perry Schmidt-Leukel

The Radiance

“Why are there so many religious traditions in the world? Why is there such a diversity of astonishing truths and insights? Global religions resemble each other within their differences. By studying a different religious tradition, you can experience how different kinds of light will fall on certain elements of your own tradition. How can we illuminate each other, for the benefit of the whole of humanity?”

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Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Professor of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology at the University of Muenster, Germany, and Director of the Institute for Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology.
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