In May 2025, an international expert meeting was hosted in Maynooth, Ireland to explore the apocalyptic and eschatological spaces between philosophy and theology in contemporary debates. The co-sponsored meeting emerged from a joint initiative among scholars from St Patrick's Pontifical University, the Institut Catholique de Toulouse, and the Relational Ontology network at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. The aim was to explore the viability of a network of strategic partnerships around urgent questions, and to strengthen interdisciplinary research exchanges between our institutions that empower academic research amid contexts of practical pastoral training and spiritual formation. Thanks to a generous invitation from the editorial board of The Heythrop Journal, a representative selection of articles from this collaborative event have been made available in this special issue, which I am delighted to gather together here.