Parliament of Worlds Religion 2004 Barcelona

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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Program Descriptions
Saturday, July 10, 2004 INTERRELIGIOUS SESSION 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
and churches in Bosnia-Herzegovina, promoting dialogue and a culture of peace.
Panel discussion with prominent Christian theologians specializing in interreligious dialogue will participate. They will explain how they understand the dialogue with the nonChristian religions from a pluralist perspective.
Emmanuel Kolini is the Anglican Primate of Rwanda and the president of the Interfaith Commission of Rwanda.
Merlinda Hussein manages the Philippines Canada Local Government Support Program. One of her projects is to establish Peace Zones in conflict-aftected areas in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
Ignasi Boada is a Dr. in philosophy and professor of history of religions at the Institute of Religious Sciences of Barcelona, Vic and Tarragona. Born in Kenya, Gavin D'Costa hos a Ph.D. in Theology at the University of Cambridge and is now a professor in Bristol; he was the adviser for the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Committee on Other Faiths; he also advised the Pontifical Council for Other Faiths in the Vatican City.
Christian Anthropology - Biblical Visions of the Human Being Sr. Griselda Cos Boada Vicente Merlo
Room 132 Panel Discussion
Paul Knitter is a Professor Emeritus of Theology at Xavier University, Cincinnati (Ohio, USA), he has been working with "Christians for Peace in El Salvador" and has published a critical survey of Christian approaches to other religions: Introducing Theologies of Religions (2002). He is also on the Board of Trustees of the International Committee for the Peace Council.
Panel discussion about the utopic vision of the human being from the Christian (Benedictine) religious perspective.
Griselda Cos Boada is a Nun of the St. Pere de les Puelles Monastery, of Barcelona (Christian Tradition). She is the Director of the Monastic Interreligious Dialogue initiative, and is a member of the editorial board of the Catalan magazine "Dialogal".
S. Wesley Ariarajah, Methodist Minister from Sri Lanka, served both in the pastoral ministry of the church and as lecturer in the History of Religions and New Testament in the common Protestant seminary of the churches in Sri Lanka. In 1981 he was invited to join the staff of the World Council of Churches, where he led the Council's Interfaith Dialogue for over ten years.
Vicente Merlo is a Dr. in Philosophy at the University of Valencia and specialist of the Hindu philosophy; he is a professor of the Master of History of Religions of the Autonomous University of Barcelona
Raimon Panikkar has been professor at the universities of Madrid, Rome, Harvard and California, where he has taught Indian culture and history and philosophy of religions. He has published more than 40 books, including The Trinity and the World's Religions and has created the Vivarium Foundation in Catalonia, which is dedicated to promoting the interreligious dialogue. He is the cochair of the Parliament of World's Religions in Barcelona.
Religions and Spiritual Path in Secular and Global Societies Marià Corbi Room 134, Spanish/English Lecture
The Christian-Jewish Dialogue: Its Potential Contribution to the Wider Inter religious Dialogue Rev. John Pawlikowski Rabbi David Rosen Gunnel Borgegard Rev. Marcus Broybrooke
Is a secular and atheistic or agnostic attitude contrary to a spiritual search? The main texts of the different religious traditions speak about the human possibility and the way to get spirituality. A spirituality bevond beliefs or no beliefs would make it possible to create the basis of human equality, which is essential for the global societies of continuous innovation.
Multiuse (1800), Spanish/English/Catalan Panel Discussion
Marià Corbi is a Dr. in Philosophy and director of the Center for the Study of Religious Traditions (CETR) in Barcelona.
Christian Visions of Religious Pluralism Ignasi Boada Gavin D'Costa Paul Knitter Rev. S. Wesley Ariarajah Rev. Dr. Raimon Panikkar
The Christian-Jewish dialogue has greatly contributed to the reduction of violent language in the relationship between the two communities. This can serve as an example to others of how a history of antagonism can be changed through inter religious dialogue. A four person panel, all deeply involved in Christian-Jewish dialogue over many years, will share perspectives on how the advances in inter religious dialogue achieved in this discussion can provide lessons for the wider dialogue among religious communities.
Auditorium (3155), Spanish/English/Catalan Panel Discussion
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