Friday, July 16, 2010

CATHOLIC DISSENTER TO SPEAK AT INTER RELIGIOUS PROGRAM ACCORDING TO DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER WEBSITE


The Diocese of Manchester has announced on its website an inter religious program to be addressed by a leading theological dissenter who claims he is a Catholic.

According to the Catechetical Leaders and Catechists News on the Catholic Diocese’ website a theologian who has been corrected by Cardinal Ratzinger, will be the main speaker at a program organised by Boston College.

 Paul F.Knitter who considers different religions as equal paths to salvation, which is also the educational policy of the Jesuit Boston College is the key speaker at the  Third Boston College Symposium on Interreligious Dialogue - October 7-9, 2010

The diocese also offers on-line Catholic Evangelization Training courses conducted by the Paulist Fathers. The Paulist website indicates the favour a theology of religions. A theology of religions is the dissent taught also by Paul Knitter.It is permitted by Bishop John B.McCormack the bishop of the Diocese of Manchester.It is approved by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops(USCCB).

The theology of religions was corrected by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 2001 when a Notification was issued to Fr.Jacques Dupuis S.J.

The Paulist National Catholic Evangelization Association (PNCEA), founded by the Paulist Fathers in 1977 to equip Catholics to evangelize, has several Online Courses  available through the Paulist Evangelist Training Institute.

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Third Boston College Symposium on Interreligious Dialogue, October 7-9, 2010

Interreligious Dialogue and Economic Development

Proponents of interreligious dialogue often focus on social action and economic advancement as a privileged occasion for collaboration and productive exchange between religions. Even though economic realities are governed by their own logic and systems, religious beliefs and practices may have a profound effect on socio-economic structures and developments. At this conference, we will focus on how religious beliefs may and do affect economic praxis and on how dialogue between religions may enrich particular conceptions of market economics, and improve socio-economic relationships between individuals from different religious groups and cultures.

Papers may deal with economic theories and principles linked to a particular religious tradition, with the extent to which these theories may contribute to economic development in a particular context or in a global perspective, and/or with the ways in which one religion has or may learn from the social theories and economic principles of other religious traditions. Some may focus on historical examples of the way in which interreligious dialogue has led to socio-economic development, while others may advance more theoretical and hypothetical proposals of how religions may work together to improve economic relationships in different parts of the world, or to offer alternatives to prevailing conceptions of economic development.



Plenary address

Thursday, October 7

"Profits and Prophets: Economic Development and Interreligious Dialogue"

Paul Knitter (Union Theological Seminary)

5 p.m.

Heights Room, Boston College

Respondents:

Jenny Aker (Tufts University)

Joe Kaboski (Ohio State University)


Symposium

(By invitation only)

Connors Conference Center, Dover, Mass.

Friday, October 8

8:30-9:30 a.m.: Eliott Dorff (Baylor University)

9:30-10:30 a.m.: Walid El-Ansary (University of South Carolina)

11:00-12:00 a.m.: Caner Dagli (College of the Holy Cross)

Lunch

2:00-3:00 p.m.: Katherine Marshall (Georgetown University)

3:00-4:00 p.m.: Laurenti Magesa (Hekima University, Kenya)

4:30-5:30 p.m.: James Buchanan (Bruggeman Center for Interreligious Dialogue, Cincinnati)

Saturday, October 9

8:30-9:30 a.m.: Donald Swearer (Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions)

9:30-10:30 a.m.: Christopher Ives (Stonehill College)

11:00-12:00 a.m.: David Loy (Xavier University)

Lunch

1:00-2:00 p.m.: Ishanaa Rambachan (Oxford University)

2:00-3:00 p.m.: Siddhartha (Fireflies Ashram, Bangalore)

Organizing committee

Catherine Cornille, John Makransky, James Morris, Ruth Langer, Peter Ireland.

For more information, please contact Glenn Willis at glenn.r.willis@gmail.com




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