|
Archive
of Fall 2007 Events
| The
Academic
community of the
Boston
Theological
Institute
wishes you and your loved ones Merry
Christmas! Happy Holidays!
and A Happy and Peaceful New Year! |
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Boston
University
The Luce Program in Scripture
and Literary Arts
is pleased to present
An Evening with Rosanna Warren
University Professor, Emma Ann
MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities, and Professor
of English and Romance Studies at Boston University
Thursday,
Nov. 29, 2007, 6pm
A reading of Professor Warren’s
own poetry, as well as the work of other writers that has inspired
her as a writer and a teacher.
This
reading is free and open to the public, and will be followed
by a light reception. Location: BU School of Management, rooms
426–8 | 595 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA For more information
visit us online at www.bu.edu/luce or contact Program Coordinator
Cristine Hutchison-Jones at crissy@bu.edu
or 617-358-1754.
Weston Jesuit School of Theology
Lecture Series
Exploring
the Systematic Theology of Benedict XVI
Philipp Gabriel
Renczes, SJ
Gregorian University, Rome
Tuesday,
November 29, 2007 (7:30pm)
Philipp
Gabriel Renczes is Jesuit priest, born in Stuttgart, Germany.
He received a doctorate in “Histoire des Religions et Anthropologie
Religieuse” in 1999 from the Sorbonne (Paris) the University
of Paris. In the same year he also earned doctorate in theology
from the Institut Catholique de Paris. Fr. Renczes is a member
of the theology faculty at the Gregorian University in Rome,
teaching a variety of courses in theology and the philosophical
backgrounds of the fathers of the Church. Location: Sherrill
3A on the EDS/WJST campus. For details, call 617.492.1960
Harvard
Divinity School
Alonzo L. McDonald
Professorship
Inaugural Lecture
Enchantment
& Disenchantment in the Evangelical Tradition
by David N. Hempton
November 29, 2007 (5:15pm)
A
talk by David N. Hempton, the first Alonzo L. McDonald Family
Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies. A reception will
follow in the Braun Room, hosted by the Office of Development
and External Relations. Contact Rita Filipowicz at 617.495.0349
for more information. Event Location: Sperry Room, Andover Hall
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The
First Thanksgiving, painting
by Jean Louis Gerome Ferris |
On
behalf of the Schools of the Boston Theological Institute,
BTI Staff wishes you and your family A Blessed
Thanksgiving! |
Hellenic
College &
Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
are pleased to announce
| Academic
Convocation
granting the title of
Doctor
Honoris Causa to
His Eminence
Demetrios
Archbishop of America
(former faculty member at
Harvard Divinity School and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox
School of Theology)
His
Eminence Demetrios will be awarded Doctor Honoris
Causa by Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
& Hellenic College)
Friday,
November 16, 2007 | 3pm
On
the campus of Hellenic College & Holy Cross Questions?
Call
(617) 731-3500 |
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Making
a Place at the Table:
Facilitating Re-entry of Sex Offenders
through
Circles of Support and Accountability
Friday,
November 16, 2007 (8:30am–4pm)
Wilson Chapel
Andover Newton Theological School, Newton,
Mass.
| Sponsored
by
Boston Theological Institute, Center for Restorative
Justice
at Suffolk University, Partakers, Prison Fellowship,
New England Prison Ministry, Criminal Justice Policy
Coalition, Gates Unbarred Fellowship, The Church at
Prison, Restorative Justice Working Group
Featured
Speaker
Robin J. Wilson, Ph.D.
Foremost expert on Circles of
Support and Accountability,
a restorative justice approach initiated by the Mennonites
and
now widely used in Canada to manage high risk sex offenders
(registration)
(Schedule
& Registration) |
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Registration
Options
Option
1
Download
and fill out registration form and Fax to 617.527.1073
Option 2 Call 617.527.4880 or
Email us!
Boston College's Center for Christian-Jewish
Learning
Boston College's Center for Human Rights and International
Justice and
The Boston Theological Institute
present
Responding
to International Conflict: Challenges for
Christian-Jewish Dialogue
Boston
College - Higgins, Room 300
| Jewish
and Christian approaches to peacemaking and war
Wednesday, November
7, 2007 (7:30-9:30pm)
Panel:
David Hollenbach,
SJ — Boston College, Theology Department
Center for Human Rights and International Justice
RODNEY
L. PETERSEN — Executive Director,
Boston Theological Institute
Rabbi
OR ROSE — Associate Dean Rabbinical
School of Hebrew College |
The
Church’s Witness on Issues in the
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Wednesday,
November 14, 2007 (7:30-9:30pm)
Presenter:
SR. RUTH LAUTT,
O.P., Esq. — Founder and National Director
Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East
Respondent:
RUTH LANGER — Boston College, Theology
Department
Center for Christian-Jewish Learning
Further
information:
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Visit the CCJL website at www.bc.edu/cjlearning:
Call 617-552-4495
BTI
Science and Religion Program
presents
Issues
in the Crossfire:
Looking Toward a Science and Religion
Conversation at the American Association for the Advancement
of Science
| Remarks
by
James Miller
former Senior Research Associate,
AAAS DoSER (Dialogue on Science,
Ethics and Religion) Project
Responses
from
Faculties of the
Schools
of the Boston Theological
Institute
November
8, 2007
4–6 PM, Wilson Chapel
(Lecture & Discussion)
6–8 PM, Peck Conference Room (Dinner
& Planning)
Andover
Newton Theological School
Boston’s
Academic and Religious Communities should seize upon that
occasion to inspire and guide Boston Clergy so that regional
churches might better inform their congregants about the
spiritual implications and the ethical issues surrounding
cutting-edge research in at least four areas:
CONTACT:
Courtland Randall or Rodney Petersen at Tel:
617.527.4880, or E-mail:
btioffice@bostontheological.org |
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Boston
College Theology Department
presents
The Joseph
Lecture
New Planets and Extraterrestrial
Beings. Does Jesus Have A Role?
By Thomas
F. O'Meara, O.P.
Warren Profesor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
and Joseph Visiting Professor 2007-2008, Boston College
Wednesday,
November 7, 2007 (7:30pm)
Location: Casson Hall
305! Refreshments
will be served! Questions, call Gloria Rufo at 617.552.3882
Harvard
Pluralism Project announces
“Palos
Hates”
A Mosque Controversy in Palos Heights, Illinois featuring Mayor
Dean Koldenhoven
Monday, November 5, 2007
(3-5PM) (click
for details...)
Location: Center
for the Study of World Religions | Common Room, 42 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA. RSVP to:
staff @ pluralism .org
“The
Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine-Israel: Issues of Justice and
Equality”
October 26 – 27, 2007
Old South Church, 645 Boylston St., Boston
Friday—2:30
PM—10:00 PM
Saturday—8:00 AM—4:30 PM
Keynote
Address:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Panelists:
Naim Ateek * Anat Biletzki *
Diana Buttu * Noam Chomsky
*
John Dugard * Farid Esack * Noura Erekat * Jeff Halper *
Donald Wagner * David Wildman
(Chick
here for details!)
Sunday,
October 21, 2007
Palestine Awareness Festival (details)
Narvaez
Workshops
on
Forgiveness
October
15 through 19, 2007
| neXus
and the Boston Theological Institute cordially invites
you to attend a series of workshops on Forgivenes with
Fr. Leonel Narváez, the President of Fundación
para la Reconciliación!
download
poster
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Forgiveness
Workshop (aka,
"The School of Forgiveness") = Monday
and Tuesday Evenings (10/15-16) - 6 - 10 PM
(no Sunday meetings)
Reconciliation
Workshop (aka,
"The School of Reconciliation") Thursday
and Friday Evenings (10/18-19) - 6 - 10 PM
(no Saturday meetings)
Location:
Resurrection
Lutheran Church,
94 Warren St., Roxbury (adjacent to the Center for Urban
Ministerial Education of Gordon Conwell Theological
Seminary)
Questions: Contact
Rodney Petersen, Executive
Director, Boston Theological Institute (617-331-1747)
and/or Matt Gibson, Director,
NeXus (857.221.6079)
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International
Mission and Ecumenism
Certificate Reception
Friday,
October 19, 2007 (4-6PM)
Doing
a certificate in International Mission and Ecumenism through
the Boston Theological Institute? Thinking about doing a certificate
in International Mission and Ecumenism through the Boston Theological
Institute? Join us for a reception at Weston
Jesuit School of Theology 5 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA
02138 (directions)
We
will partake of food and fellowship, share information about
the IME certificate program, and discuss the demographics of
world Christianity with
Dr. Todd Johnson of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity
at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. See you there!
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We
are please to announce the publication of the electronic
version of our Fall 2007 (7.1) issue of the Bulletin
of the Boston Theological Institute! (Download
here!)
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Advancing
the “Beloved Community” People, Power and Change
October
10, 2007
| Andover
Newton Theological School (ANTS) will host this
year’s BTI Annual Dinner and Lecture on Wednesday evening,
October 10, 2007, in the Wilson Chapel. Marshall Ganz
and Richard Parker, both of Harvard’s JFK School of Government,
will offer remarks on building community in the 21st century.
The occasion also marks the celebration of Andover Newton’s
200th Anniversary!
(download
evening program here!) |
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Ganz’s
background includes work as a volunteer in the Civil Rights
Movement, with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers as well
as extensive involvement in union, community, and political
organizing movements and organizations. Son of a rabbi, Ganz
currently teaches popular courses on organizing at the Kennedy
School of Government and works with many Christian and Jewish
NGOs. Parker, son of an Episcopalian minister, has worked as
an economist for the UNDP, as cofounder of Mother Jones Magazine,
and as head of his own consulting firm, serving congressional
clients including Senators Kennedy, Glenn, Cranston, and McGovern,
among others, while authoring such books as: The Myth of the
Middle Class, a study of U.S. income distribution; Mixed Signals:
The Future of Global Television News; and the intellectual biography
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics.
(BTI Faculty and Staff, please
RSVP for dinner by Friday October 5, 2007 at 617.527.4880
(email btioffice at bostontheological.org)
Boston
College: Bapst Art Library
Photo
Exhibition:
Sihastria Putnei
October 4 - 20, 2007 (5pm)
Opening
& Concert of Byzantine Music
Presented by members of Stavropoleos
Monastery’s Byzantine Choir
Friday,
October 5, 2007 (5pm)
| You
are cordially invited to a photo exhibition representing
images from the Orthodox monastery Sihastria Putnei (Romania)
presented by Dragos Lumpan of National Geographic. The
exhibition will be open to public from October 4 until
October 20. A second reception and presentation will take
place on Thursday, October 11, 2007 (5:30pm) at Boston
College’s Burns Library. For details, and updates please
call Marian Simion at 617.527.4880 |
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Joseph
Montville
to Lead this Year’s
Religion and Conflict Transformation Inauguration
Joseph
Montville, leading proponent in the field of Track II Diplomacy
will inaugurate this year’s Religion and Conflict Transformation
program as developed at Boston University School of Theology,
in association with the BTI Certificate in Religion and Conflict
Transformation. Montville, who coined the term “Track Two Diplomacy,”
will lead a series of discussions on Friday afternoon and Saturday
morning, September 28–29 at the Walker Center. Montville will
be joined by students from Harvard Divinity School, BU School
of Theology and other BTI schools in a series of topics to include
the following:
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•
My Journey in Peace-Building (Montville and student
experiences)
• Realism and Dialogue: The Burdens of History … with
specific reference to the Abrahamic Family
• The Healing of Memories – Reconciling Persons and
Communities
• Crafting a Program in Religion and Conflict Transformation
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This
two-day seminar is an integral part of the Boston University
School of Theology concentration and BTI certificate in Religion
and Conflict Transformation. The seminar is designed to be a
space for BTI students, faculty, staff and their friends to
talk about courses and programming in the BTI schools in Religion
and Conflict Transformation, to fellowship together with some
tremendous peers, to envision new paths of personal discipleship
and journeying, to discern holistic mission in the 21st century
and to engage practical opportunities for peacebuilding.
The
Walker Center is located at 144 Hancock Street, Newton, MA (617-969-3919).
It can be reached by public transportation on the Green Line
to the Riverside station, followed by a 5 minutes walk to the
Center. Flyers with additional registration information will
shortly appear in all of the BTI schools.
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To
Register: Contact the Boston Theological Institute by
phone at 617.527.4880, email btioffice@bostontheological.org
Registration
is free to BTI students, faculty and staff, a modest charge
for others. Registrants are encouraged to participate
in dinner on Friday evening ($12) and lunch ($10) on Saturday
midday for which there will be a nominal fee as noted.
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| Dr.
Daniel Ciobotea:
the Sixth Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox
Church
Bucharest:
Wendesday, September 12, 2007 (19:30pm) His Eminence Dr.
Daniel Ciobotea, Archbishop of Iasi and Metropolitan of
Moldova and Bucovina has been elected as the Sixth Patriarch
of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The election took place
by secret vote, by the electoral College of the National
Church Assembly of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Patriarch-Elect
Daniel served as Patriarch Locum Tenens following
the passing away of His Beatitude Teoctist on July 30,
2007. Since 1980 until 1988, he served as Lector and Assistant
Director of the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Geneva
and taught as Associated Professor in Geneva and Fribourg,
Switzerland.) Click
here for a complete biography! |
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| Patriarch
Teoctist
of the Romanian Orthodox Church passed away on July 30,
2007, at the age 92!
Very
active in ecumenical affairs, and in the religious revival
of the Romanian Orthodox Church following the 1989 events,
Patriarch Teoctist was the spiritual leader of over 18 million
Orthodox Romanians worldwide, serving for 57 years as a
bishop, and 21 as a Patriarch. He
made history in 1999 when he invited Pope John Paul II to
Romania, the first time a pope had visited an Orthodox country
since the Great Schism of 1054. The
Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church appointed
His Eminence Daniel Archbishop of Iasi
and Metropolitan of Moldova and Bucovina as interim leader.
(Since 1980 until 1988, His Eminence Daniel served as Lector
at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Geneva and Associated
Professor in Geneva and Fribourg, Switzerland.) A new Patriarch
will be elected after a mourning period of 41 days.
Pope
John Paul II embracing Patriarch Teoctist, in Bucharest,
Romania in 1999.
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Pappas
Patristic Institute of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
The
First Annual
Summer Patristic Studies Program
At Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
Brookline, Massachusetts
July
29 – August 3, 2007
We
are pleased to announce the inaugural week-long Summer Patristic
Studies Program on the campus of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School
of Theology in Brookline, MA on July 29 – August 3, 2007. This
is a unique opportunity for theology, divinity, and religious
studies students at the masters-level to study closely some of
the classic texts of the early Church in thematic, group study
sessions. Undergraduates and others with a background in theological
studies are also welcome to apply. Click
here for details, or visit the website of the Patristic
Institute at www.pappaspatristic.hchc.edu
Overcoming
Violence
Exploring Effective Practices
Through the Schools of the Boston Theological Institute
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For
more information, call (617) 527-4880 or email btioffice@bostontheological.org
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IMEC
BOOK Recently Published!
| Antioch
Agenda
Essays on the Restorative Church
in honor of Orlando E. Costas
Edited
by
Daniel Jeyaraj
Robert W. Pazmiño
Rodney L. Petersen
Published
by
Indian Society for the Promotion of Christian
Knowledge: New Delhi, 2007
Cover
endorsement
A
most important and stimulating study of world mission
which provides a real intellectual undergirding for the
work of the Church today.
Lord
Carey of Clifton
former Archbishop of Canterbury (1991-2002)
President of London School of Theology
Now
available through Amazon.com! |
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RECOMENDED books on religion and peacemaking
by BTI Faculties!
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Religion
and Nationalism in Iraq: A Comparative Perspective
Edited by David Little & Donald K. Swearer
Harvard University Press: 2007
This
volume provides a comparative consideration of attempts
to manage and resolve nationalist conflicts in Bosnia, Sri
Lanka, and Sudan, and examines how lessons from those situations
might inform similar efforts in Iraq. In their introduction,
Professors Little and Swearer review current scholarly thinking
on the connection of religious and ethnic factors to nationalist
conflicts, and they demonstrate the salience of religious
and ethnic identity to these conflicts. |
Peacemakers
in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution
Edited by Professor David Little
Cambridge University Press: 2007
Peacemakers
in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution
shares the experiences of 16 such remarkable religious
peacemakers who have put their lives on the line in conflicts
around the world — from Israel-Palestine to Northern Ireland,
the Balkans, Sudan, South Africa, El Salvador, Indonesia
— and beyond. For each of them, religious texts and traditions
have served both as a source of inspiration and as a practical
resource in resolv ing conflict.
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updated on:
January 4, 2008
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