The transdisciplinary discourse on intermediality that has begun to establish itself incorporates the traditions of what some fifteen years ago began to be called "Interart(s) Studies" and the discussion of intermediality carried on within the "Media Studies" disciplines as well as the more recent investigations into the "New Media Poetries" based on the digital media. "lnterarts Studies" has been a growing interdisciplinary area of the humanities, still dominated by investigations into the interrelations of literature and the other arts, but increasingly also involved with aspects of intermedial connections between the visual arts, music, dance, performance arts, theatre, film, and architecture, where the word plays only a subsidiary role, or none at all. The focus still tends to be on "texts", and the preferred kind of text, and for a long time the only one, has been the kind that could be considered a work of art. Aesthetic concerns were initially of considerable importance. "Media Studies" have often approached issues of intermediality in the context of communications studies, where questions of production, distribution, function, and reception have always played a significant role. All the areas studied - radio, cinema, television, video, and also the print media - involve multiple media and often complex technological production processes and apparatuses. Intermediality is thus an issue both within each of these media and in their interrelations with each other as well as with the "arts" covered bv the traditional Interarts Studies. Here, as in the other instances, semiotics has supplied useful concepts and methods in dealing with a number of crucial issues. /Claus Clüver/

The term “constructive theology” is often used synonymously with the terms Christian theology, systematic theology, or dogmatic theology and connotes an understanding of theology as a discourse that is both constructed and engaged in ongoing construction. Constructive theology is, therefore, a discourse that is always in process and open to interaction with other forms of knowledge, including knowledge produced in the social and natural sciences.

One of the differences between constructive and systematic theology is that the latter seeks to develop a system, based on philosophical approaches or particular themes or insights, which provides a comprehensive framework for theological topics. Constructive theology, on the other hand, rejects closed systematic frameworks in favor of more open-ended reflections.

/Joerg Rieger - Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions/