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The Institute for the Study of Religions and Cultures

with the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies

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AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO MARK THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PROMULGATION OF THE DECLARATION NOSTRA AETATE OF THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL.

Nostra Aetate Today:
Reflections 40 Years after Its Call for a New Era of Interreligious Relationships
Rome: Pontifical Gregorian University
25 - 28 September 2005
 

Plenary sessions will focus on the way in which people of various faiths have come to a new understanding of their own tradition through engagement with another tradition. Successive days will concentrate on Jewish-Christian relations, on Christian relations with the religious traditions of Asia, and on Muslim-Christian relations.

Each evening, according to that day?s focus, a panel will assess the progress made in the 40 years since Nostra Aetate and propose future directions.


THE WORKING LANGUAGES OF THE PLENARY SESSIONS WILL BE ITALIAN AND ENGLISH, WITH SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION AVAILABLE.


The afternoons will offer concurrent sessions, providing various panels or individual papers, not necessarily tied to the religion that is the focus of the day. Participants will be able to choose according to their interests. Certain themes will continue through the three days, offering an opportunity for sustained attention to important questions.

More information on plenary and concurrent sessions will be posted as details are finalized. A current partial listing of presenters in Catholic-Jewish relations includes:

Emilio Baccarini Donald Dietrich Michael Kotzin Peter Pettit
Judith Banki Audrey Doetzel Ron Kronish Christian Rutishauser
Elena Bartolini David Elcott Ruth Langer David Sandmel
Alan Berger Paulo Gamberini Alberto Melloni Eileen Schuller
Mary C. Boys Leonard Greenspoon David Neuhaus Donald Senior
Gary Bretton-Granatoor Jonathan Gorsky Stanislaw Obirek Roman Siebenrock
Alan Brill Alon Goshen-Gottstein Margaret Palliser Michael Signer
Maria Brutti Hanspeter Heinz John T. Pawlikowski Jesper Svartnik
David Coppola Hans-Hermann Henrix Michael Peppard Liam Tracey
Philip A. Cunningham Edward Kessler Mauro Pesce Hans Ucko
Manfred Deselaers Eugene Korn   Andrew Wingate

For registration information click HERE.