Rate My Professor Tanya Van Wyk

Van Wyk's research interests encompass political theology, Trinitarian theology, reconciling diversity through inclusive language, gender and feminist theology and ethics, and religion's contributions to sustainable development, particularly gender equity under UN SDG Goal 5. Recognized as an NRF-rated scholar with a C2 rating, she holds a research fellowship at Harvard Divinity School's Institute for Peace Studies in Eastern Christianity and is an associated researcher with Humboldt University's Programme for Religious Communities and Sustainable Development. Her scholarly output includes editing “Being Spiritual while doing research” (LitVerlag, 2024), articles such as “Unhiding women: Decolonising the mind of a female systematic theologian” (HTS Theological Studies, 2023), “By blood or by choice? On relational autonomy and the familial ties that bind us” (Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 2022), “Protesting patriarchal power: The task of political theology in creating solidarity and sustaining activism” (Concilium, 2020), and earlier publications like “Church as Heterotopia” (HTS, 2014) and “Political Theology as critical theology” (HTS, 2015). Through her leadership and publications, she influences theological discourse on inclusivity and social justice.