Interfaith Activities

Various Interfaith Events in the Community:

Fr. David Neuhaus, S.J. will present the 17th annual DeLubac Lecture on Wednesday, February 8, at 7 p.m. in the St. Louis Room of the Busch Student Center (Grand and Laclede) at Saint Louis University.  Fr. Neuhaus will speak on “Christians in the Middle East:  A Rich Past!  Any Future?”  He is a professor of scripture at Bethlehem University and a member of the Pontifical Commission on Interreligious Dialogue.

 

The Islamic Interfaith Dialogue lunch meetings will be at Aquinas Institute of Theology, 23 S. Spring, 63108, from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in room 215 on the following Thursdays:  February 9, 16, and 23; March 1.  At these meetings a group of Jews, Christians, and Muslims study the Qur’an and the Bible together. 

 

The annual meeting of Interfaith Partnership/Faith Beyond Walls will be held on Thursday, February 9, at 7 p.m. at the Commons Building at Eden Seminary, 475 East Lockwood, Webster Groves.  The Commons Building is next to the parking lot which can be accessed from North Bompart, the street on the eastern border of Eden.  Representatives from Judaism (Rabbi Ryan Dulkin), Christianity (Professor Tobias Winright), and Islam (Professor Gulten Ilhan) will discuss “Jihad and Just War.”  An election of officers will also take place at this meeting.

 

Professor Stanley Hauerwas of Duke Divinity School will present the 2012 Bellarmine Lecture on Tuesday, February 21, at 7 p.m. in the St. Louis Room of the Busch Student Center at Saint Louis University.  Professor Hauerwas, an expert on theological ethics, will speak on “War and Peace.”

 

The exhibit “Reflections of the Buddha” which will be at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, 3716 Washington Boulevard, 63108, up to March 10.  This museum is open on Wednesdays between 12 and 5 p.m. and on Saturdays between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.  This special exhibit features over 20 Buddhist sculptures dating from the 2nd century C.E. from different Asian countries. 

David Oughton
Department of Theological Studies
Saint Louis University
doughton@slu.edu