The Fellowship of Anglican Scholars of Theology, or simply FeAST, is a network that facilitates encounter between Anglican scholars, as well as the exchange of fresh theological thinking and research. Through this, FeAST serves as an instrument for building up Anglican scholars and scholarship marked by creativity, critical-edge and courage.

Background

Global Anglicanism holds boundless theological wealth, much of which is often not sufficiently shared across (and beyond) the Anglican Communion. There are several reasons for this, some of which include lack of access to and opportunity for networking, academic publishing, and participation in global academic forums. These obstacles, stem from and in turn sustain, historical imbalances in global theological scholarship which has for long privileged and accorded normative status to theologies and theological methods which have a Eurocentric bias.

Conscious of these challenges, FeAST exists to:

• Build a platform for discussion and dissemination of current research.
• Create ‘academic solidarities’ by establishing an intergenerational and international platform for mutual mentoring and support, intentionally overcoming the ‘opportunities divide’.
• Share resources – facilitate student and faculty exchanges, visiting lectureships, sabbatical opportunities, curricula, research skills, and possibilities for collaboration.

Our ultimate aim for the global forum is to resource the Anglican Communion in the vocation of theological research and education from a standpoint of mutual learning.