Concurrent Sessions
Group I
LIVING IN DIVERSE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
Location: Devon Room
Moderator: John Edwards
1. Don Kuriakose Cherupuzhathottathil, official for the Congregation for the Oriental Church, “Ministry of Charity (Diakonia): A Silent Means to Dialogue between Believers of Different Religionsâ€
2. Amanda Quantz, University of St. Mary (KS), “Global Wisdom for a Prophetic Church: A Twenty-First Century Application of Nostra Aetateâ€
3. Eric Trinka, PhD candidate, Catholic University of America, “Migration and Religion in the 21st Century in Light of the Call of Nostra Aetateâ€
Group II
INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE FOR THE COMMON GOOD
Location: Radnor Room
Moderator: Julie Sheetz-Willard
1. Stephen Adubato, St. Benedict’s Prep (NJ), “Divine Dialogues: The Implications of Ratzinger’s Theology of the Eucharist for Interreligious Affairsâ€
2. Fatih Harpci, Carthage College (WI), “Beyond Coexistence and Tolerance: Christian-Muslim Relations in the Light of Nostra Aetate and A Common Wordâ€
Group III
A CALL TO MISSION
Location: Haverford Room
Moderator: Suzanne Wentzel
1. Kaley Carpenter, ¸ÌéÙÖ±²¥ University, “A Missionary Minefield or Millennial Partnership? Nostra Aetate and American Protestants in the Middle Eastâ€
2. Anthoni Jeorge, MI, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, “Towards a Constructive Inculturation: Role of Cultural Competence for Missionary Leadership Praxis in the Multi-religious Context of Indiaâ€
3. Matthijs Kronemeijer, independent scholar, “The Troubling Attractiveness of Another Faith: Political Theologies Up in the Air from Abu Dhabi to Rome and Beyondâ€
Group IV
CHRISTIAN-JEWISH PRACTICE
Location: St. David’s Room
Moderator: Ian Clausen
1. Julia McStravog, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Human Dignity in Our Time: Dialogue, Freedom, and Mutualityâ€
2. Joel Warden, Catholic Scholar in Residence, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, “Catholic Eucharistic Anamnesis, Jewish Remembrance of Liberation at Pesach, and the Healing of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorderâ€
Group V
CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM DIALOGUE
Location: Bryn Mawr Room
Moderator: Barbara Wall
1. Matthew Bagot, Spring Hill College (AL), “Fostering Unity and Justice: Catholic and Muslim Approaches to Democracyâ€
2. Jules Boutros, Saint Joseph University and Sagesse University, Beirut, “Promoting the Constants of Mission with the Muslims for Today in the Middle Eastâ€
3. John Flannery, “The Mission of the Portuguese Augustinians to Persia and Beyond (1602–1747)â€
Group VI
NOSTRA AETATE AND SUPERSESSIONIST THEOLOGY
Location: Rosemont Room
Moderator: Kerry San Chirico
1. Kevin Hughes, ¸ÌéÙÖ±²¥ University, “Nostra Aetate and the Possibilities of a Catholic Post-Supersessionist Theologyâ€
2. Rebecca Luft, St. Macrina Orthodox Institute, “The Image of Israel in God’s Mind: Confronting the Question of Supersessionism in an Iconic Participatory Reading of Scripturesâ€