Inter-religious Dialogue

Applications open for 2012 EATEP

Submitted on December 15, 2011 - 6:24 pm

The East Asia Theological Encounter Programme (EATEP) in 2012 will be held from April 16 to May 14.   The programme, which is in its seventh year, will be held at Seven Fountains, the Jesuit spirituality centre in Chiangmai, Thailand.

Second APTEP begins in April 2012, applications open

Submitted on November 22, 2011 - 2:30 pm

The second Asia Pacific Theological Encounter Programme (APTEP) will be held from April 10 to May 8, 2012.   Conducted by the Indonesian Jesuits, the one-month programme on “Dialogue with Muslims” was first held in 2011.  It was born from the positive successful immersion programme conducted in 2009 with 18 Indonesian Jesuit scholastics living in an Islamic boarding school (pesantren) for two weeks.

Ricci Legacy Symposium videos online

Submitted on November 22, 2011 - 1:53 pm

Videos from The Ricci Legacy Symposium held in Hong Kong in December 2010 are now available online. 

The four-day symposium on inculturation was collaboration between Xavier House Spiritual Formation Centre in Hong Kong and Georgetown University in the United States. The 300 participants – about 100 from mainland China – heard 10 international experts, including Georgetown’s Fr Howard Gray, SJ, reflect on cultural adaptation of the Gospel and Ignatian Spirituality.

Fr General: Evangelisation-through-dialogue

Submitted on November 22, 2011 - 1:23 pm

Father General Adolfo Nicolás SJ speaks to The Way about Interreligious Dialogue: The Experience of some Pioneer Jesuits in Asia.

Before becoming Superior General of the Jesuits in 2008, Adolfo Nicolás worked for many years in Asia. Here he draws on that experience to argue for the contemporary emergence of a new paradigm for the work of spreading the gospel, that of ‘evangelisation-through-dialogue’. He finds seeds of this in the work of the first Jesuits in that continent, seeds that at the time failed to flourish in an unprepared world.

LST and Heythrop Discuss Religions and Cultures

Submitted on September 13, 2011 - 11:19 am

A forum entitled Theological Views on Religions and Cultures by jointly held by Ateneo de Manila University’s Loyola School of Theology and Heythrop College’s Centre for Christianity and Interreligious Dialogue in Manila from July 21 to 23, 2011. Br. Bernard Falzon mssp provides an account of the three-day event.

Ateneo de Davao to Establish Islamic Research Institute

Submitted on September 13, 2011 - 11:11 am

Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU) has approved the establishment of the ADDU Al Qalam Institute: An Institute for Islamic Identities and Dialogue.

Discussing Buddhist Christian Encounter

Submitted on September 13, 2011 - 10:42 am

In the spirit of inter-religious dialogue, a recent symposium for Jesuit scholars of Buddhism began with an Aarti or ‘lamp lighting’ ceremony.

Learning God’s business together

A Muslim boy asked his mother: ‘Is it true only Muslims get to paradise?’ Mother replied: ‘Who said that?’ ‘My teacher’, answered the boy. Mother smiled and said: ‘Who gets to heaven or hell is not your business; neither is it your teacher’s.’

Students to be agents of peace

Submitted on July 26, 2011 - 11:09 am

INDONESIA – A group of young Catholics, Muslims and Protestants in Yogyakarta have emerged from a peace-building workshop in July inspired to be agents of peace.  They will be organizing activities to encourage interfaith dialogue and understanding such as visits to religious institutions and celebrations of religious festivals.

Working on the Koan Mu: The psychology of Zen in practice

Submitted on May 25, 2011 - 1:44 pm

In this essay, after giving some background information, I present reflections on some of my own “psychological” experiences of doing Zen over the last 35 years. I use the word “psychological” to differentiate these experiences from authentic Zen experiences.  - Fr Jerry Cusumano, S.J.

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