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SUMMARY:Abrahamic Talk Series
DESCRIPTION:INTERFAITH DIALOGUE TODAY:  Is Cooperation Across Religious Traditions a Luxury for Community Building? \nPanelists:\nDebra Landsberg (Jewish)\nValeria Vergani (Christian)\nBetul Veral (Muslim)\n\n\nContent:\n\nThe panelists will discuss multiple ways in which faith and interfaith reflection\, dialogue\, and cooperation can help a society to develop a sense of community in the midst of highly individualizing contexts.\n– What are the tools for community-building at our disposal in cultural traditions as robust as Judaism\, Islam\, and Christianity?\n– What should be our starting point as people of faith in responding to the isolating effects of an individualistic secularism?\n– What have been our personal experiences of successful community-building within/across religious groups?
URL:https://frasercentre.ca/event/abrahamic-talk-series/
LOCATION:Regis College\, 100 Wellesley St W\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2Z5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:2020 Annual Scarboro Missions Lecture in Interreligious Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:“Faith in the Commons:  Becoming Neighbours includes the Personal and the Political” \nLecture—7:00 pm // Reception—8:30 pm  (Please RSVP through the Regis Website.) \nOne of the most exciting developments in political theology is the renewed awareness that “the neighbour” creates a new space “in-between” the personal and the political.  Professor Leddy will illustrate and explore how becoming neighbours summons new forms of spirituality and politics and provides common ground for interfaith and cross- cultural relationships. \nPresented by   Dr. Mary Jo Leddy\, Romero House Founder and Regis College Professor \nRespondents:  Shahid Akhtar and Dr. Barbara Landau\,  Co-Chairs\, Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims \n Moderator:     Dr. Michael Stoeber\, Scarboro Missions Chair in  Interreligious Dialogue\, Regis College \nThe 8:30 pm reception following the Lecture will also include the reception for the Art Exhibit\, “Neighbourhood Earth\,” which is on display all of February 2020\, at Regis College at the University of Toronto.  Please register through the Regis Website. \nThe programming offered by the “Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre of Practical Theology” (or the “Scarboro Missions Chair of Inter-religious Dialogue”) was made possible through the Scarboro Missions Legacy. Scarboro Missions is a Society of Apostolic Life of Canadian Catholics\, priests and laity\, motivated by the Spirit and dedicated to the person\, teaching\, and mission of Jesus Christ as expressed in his words: “I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.” (John 10:10).
URL:https://frasercentre.ca/event/2020-annual-scarboro-missions-lecture-in-interreligious-dialogue/
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SUMMARY:Fraser Centre Interreligious Visual Art Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Fraser Centre Interreligious Visual Art Exhibit: \n“Neighbourhood Earth” \nFebruary 2—February 29\, 2020 \nExhibit Reception: Thursday\, February 13\, 2020\, 8:30pm-9:30 pm. (Please RSVP through the Regis Website.) \nThe art exhibit asks: What is a neighbour?  Who is my neighbour?  What is a neighbourhood?  What are the borders of our neighbourhoods?  Who defines them?  Who is inside\, who is outside?  How do personal or political relations become “neighbourly”?  Who is overseeing our neighbourhood watch?  Who determines the scales of our neighbourhoods—local\, regional\, national\, cultural\, religious\, spiritual\, ecological?  Is not a central tragedy of our times the perception of our differences as disproportionately more important than our similarities? \nParticipating artists:  Linda Chen\, Blake Debassige\, Heather Gentleman\, Hayyan Helal\, David Holt\, Tai Kim\, Emmaus O’Herlihy O.S.B.\, Aparna Rangnekar\, Michael Stoeber. \nCo-curated with Katharine Lochnan\, the exhibit is in conjunction with the 2020 Scarboro Missions Lecture in Interreligious Dialogue by Dr. Mary Jo Leddy: “Faith in the Commons: Becoming Neighbours includes the Personal and the Political\,” Thursday\, February 13\, 7:00 pm. The 8:30 pm reception following the 2020 Lecture will also include the reception for the Fraser Centre Interreligious Visual Art Exhibit. \n 
URL:https://frasercentre.ca/event/fraser-centre-interreligious-visual-art-exhibit/
LOCATION:Regis College\, 100 Wellesley St W\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2Z5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Creation and Ecological Issues in Modern Orthodox Theology
DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Dr. Tamara Grdzelidze\, D.Phil\, Ph.D. (Oxford) \nDr. Tamara Grdzelidze is the Aileen Driscoll Research Fellow in Ecumenical Theology (Faculty of Theology at the University of St. Michael’s College\, University of Toronto) and former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Holy See. She served for many years as Program Executive on the Faith and Order Secretariat\, World Council of Churches (Switzerland)\, and has published numerous work in Orthodox theology\, ecumenism and Maximus the Confessor.
URL:https://frasercentre.ca/event/creation-and-ecological-issues-in-modern-orthodox-theology/
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SUMMARY:Abrahamic Lecture Series (Postponed to a later date.)
DESCRIPTION:Faith and Community:  How Can Interfaith Dialogue Build Bridges Between the Individual and the Collective?\nThis event is in collaboration with the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto (CJDT) \nA moderated discussion on issues of concern for faith communities and their members\, featuring speakers of the three Abrahamic traditions\n\nThe Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre for Practical Theology\, in collaboration with the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto\, presents the third annual Abrahamic Talks Series. This event is an opportunity for members of various religious traditions\, as well as other members of the local community\, to dialogue around the ways in which faith communities can respond to pressing issues. Topics such as social and environmental justice\, truth and reconciliation\, and multiculturalism will be central to our conversations. \n \nThrough a moderated discussion amongst a group of community leaders\, academics\, and practitioners from different faith backgrounds\, the series aims to facilitate and promote further cooperation between members of diverse religious communities.\n \nIn this edition of the Abrahamic Series\, we will explore the rapidly changing interaction between individuals and their communities in a secularized world. The series will create a space for deep dialogue about the tools that inter-religious initiatives can offer to the complex\, multi-layered challenges that continue to arise globally as radically diverse individuals encounter each other in today’s multicultural communities. 
URL:https://frasercentre.ca/event/abrahamic-lecture-series/
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SUMMARY:Fraser Lecture: Early Jesuit Engagement with the Qur’an: Questions\, Answers\, and a Few Puzzles
DESCRIPTION:On February 11 at 4:30 p.m.\, the Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre for Practical Theology will host a public lecture in the Regis College St. Joseph Chapel. Guest-speaker Dr. Paul Shore will deliver a lecture “Early Jesuit Engagement with the Qur’an: Questions\, Answers\, and a Few Puzzles.” \n  \nAmong the representatives of seventeenth-century Catholicism to engage with the Qur’an were four Jesuits: Stephanus Arator (1541-1612)\, Peter Pázmány (1570-1637)\, Ignazio Lomellini (c. 1565-1645)\, and Michael Nau (1633-1683).  Arator and Pázmány relied on translations and transliterations of the text of the Qur’an to construct their arguments\, which were driven as much by deep divisions within the Christian world as they were by knowledge of Islam\, and which were shaped by anxiety over the spread of Unitarianism in Eastern Europe.   Lomellini completed the first Latin translation of the Qur’an to include the entire Arabic text\, although he never traveled to an Arabic-speaking region. The commentaries he wrote suggest that his intended audience was Christian\, but his manuscript languished for centuries\, ignored by scholars. Nau spent many years in the Levant\, working in Aleppo and Damascus\, and wrote in Arabic\, as well as rendering translations into Latin of passage of the Qur’an.  As a representative of the “Golden Age” of Jesuit travel literature\, Nau introduced European audiences to some of the mores of Levantine Muslim cultures. Taken together\, the lives of men illustrate the diversity and complexity of Jesuit engagement with the Qur’an during the first century of the Society of Jesus. \n  \nPaul Shore has held teaching and research posts at Saint Louis University\, Harvard Divinity School\, Oxford University\, the University of Wrocław\, the University of Edinburgh\, Trinity College Dublin\, and Charles University Prague\, and in 2013 was the Alan Richardson Fellow in Theology and Religion at the University of Durham.  He is currently Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Regina\, Saskatchewan\, Canada and during autumn of 2018 was Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University.  Shore’s publications include The Eagle and the Cross: Jesuits in Late Baroque Prague and Narratives of Adversity: Jesuits on the Eastern Peripheries of the Habsburg Realms (1640-1773)\, and a volume of poetry\, Encounters\, Estrangements\, Connections.  Environment Matters\, written with Lynn Whidden\, is forthcoming from Peter Lang.  Shore lives in Brandon\, Manitoba\, Canada where he is a deacon at St Matthew’s Anglican Cathedral.
URL:https://frasercentre.ca/event/fraser-lecture-early-jesuit-engagement-with-the-quran-questions-answers-and-a-few-puzzles/
LOCATION:Regis College\, 100 Wellesley St W\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2Z5\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190524T173000
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SUMMARY:Scarboro Missions Lecture in Inter-religious Dialogue & Official Opening of the Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre for Practical Theology
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, February 13\, the Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre for Practical Theology invites you to attend the Official Opening of the Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre for Practical Theology at 5:30 pm followed by the Scarboro Missions Lecture in Inter-religious Dialogue at 7:30 pm. \nThe lecture is entitled “Lakota and Christian Interreligious Dialogue: Questions Surrounding the Life\, Teachings\, and Influence of Nick Black Elk\,” presented by Dr. Michael Stoeber\, Scarboro Missions Chair in Interreligious Dialogue\, Regis College. The Respondents will be Jonathan Hamilton-Diabo\, Director of Indigenous Initiatives\, University of Toronto\, and Dr. John Dadosky\, Regis College. The Moderator for the lecture will be Dr. Pamela Couture\, Jane and Geoffrey Martin Chair in Church and Community\, Emmanuel College. \nDescription:  The story about the influential Lakota healer and holy man—Black Elk Speaks (1932)—has become widely popular and an authoritative guide for North American indigenous spirituality.  However\, given Nick Black Elk’s conversion to Roman Catholicism some twenty-five years prior to its publication\, and his work as a Roman Catholic catechist\, controversy surrounds this book.  This lecture will explore various related questions: How does Nick Black Elk’s Roman Catholicism colour the dynamics of the indigenous spirituality in the book?  How much does the narrator of the story\, John Niehardt\, positively influence or distort the dynamics of the spirituality?  How might this account of indigenous spirituality have actually influenced 20th century developments in Roman Catholic spirituality?  These questions have been further complicated by the recent initiation of the cause for the sainthood of Nick Black Elk in the Roman Catholic Church.  How might this process towards canonization function to continue the Roman Catholic Church’s role in colonialism?  How might it actually work to support the indigenous spirituality that Black Elk articulated so influentially? \nThe evening’s schedule is as follows: \n5:30: Opening Remarks  \n5:45: Website Launch \n6:15: Reception \n7:30: Lecture
URL:https://frasercentre.ca/event/scarboro-missions-lecture-in-inter-religious-dialogue-official-opening-of-the-msgr-john-mary-fraser-centre-for-practical-theology/
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SUMMARY:Abrahamic Talks Series: Charity without Justice Is Not Charity–Justice without Charity Is Not Just
DESCRIPTION:The Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre for Practical Theology at Regis College\, in collaboration with the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto\, presents the “Abrahamic Talks Series.” The series is an opportunity for members of diverse religious traditions\, as well as members of the local community\, to discuss how faith communities can respond to contemporary social issues and concerns. Through this initiative\, we aim to facilitate and promote further cooperation between religious communities and their members. \nJoin us on Wednesday\, April 3\, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Regis College\, for “Charity without Justice Is Not Charity–Justice without Charity Is Not Just\,” the next edition of the Abrahamic Talks Series. This time\, our discussion will surround the diverse Abrahamic understandings of the concepts of “justice” and “charity\,” and we will be under the leadership of three wonderful panelists: Cari Kozierok (Ve’ahavta)\, Mohammad Abdul Wadud (ICNA Canada)\, and Kevin Moore (Regent Park Community Ministry\, United Church of Canada). Please fill out the registration link below.
URL:https://frasercentre.ca/event/abrahamic-talks-series-charity-without-justice-is-not-charity-justice-without-charity-is-not-just/
LOCATION:Regis College\, 100 Wellesley St W\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2Z5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Serpents and Dragons: Mary and Her Enemies in Mexican and Indian Art
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre on Wednesday\, March 20\, 2019 at 4 p.m. in Classroom A of Regis College (100 Wellesley St. W.) as Dr. Patrizia Granziera presents a lecture entitled “Serpents and Dragons: Mary and Her Enemies in Mexican and Indian Art.” \nPatrizia Granziera is Professor of Art History at the University of Morelos\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico. She has a Ph.D. in Art History from University of Warwick. Her research focuses on the iconography of gardens and landscapes and on the image and symbolism of the divine feminine. Along with many published articles\, she co-authored Image of the Divine Feminine in Mexico: Aztec Goddesses and Christian Madonnas (Ashgate 2012). In her presentation\, “Serpents and Dragons: Mary and Her Enemies in Mexican and Indian Art\,” Dr. Granziera will explore how Marian images in colonial Mexico and India represented the idea of the divine feminine and how European missionaries responded to the popularity of the goddesses in these newly conquered lands. \nThis event\, sponsored by the Msrgr. John Mary Fraser Centre\, is offered with the support of the TST Comparative Theology Group\, Regis College\, Trinity College\, and Emmanuel College. Please be sure to register.
URL:https://frasercentre.ca/event/serpents-and-dragons-mary-and-her-enemies-in-mexican-and-indian-art/
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