Registration
Online registration is now closed. If you would like to attend the conference, you may register when you arrive on campus. If you have any questions, please contact Nancy VanderVeen, Director of Theological Lifelong Learning. Phone: 973/408- 3084; E-mail: nvanderveen@drew.edu.
Wednesday, September 26
12:00 p.m. – Registration & Check-In (Seminary Hall)
1:30 p.m. – Welcome and Plenary One – Dr. Pyun, Sun Hwan’s Contribution to Interreligious Theology
Dr. Hans Ucko, Former Program Executive for Inter-religious Relations and Dialogue, World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland; Dr. Jung Bae Lee, Professor of Philosophy of Religion & Systematic Theology, Methodist Theological University, Seoul, Korea
3:00 p.m. – Opening Reception
4:00 p.m. – Plenary Two – Interreligious Dialogue vs. Interreligious Theology
Dr. Wesley Ariarajah, Professor of Ecumenical Theology, Drew Theological School; Dr. Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Divinity School
5:30 p.m. – Community Dinner
7:30 p.m. – Opening Chapel Service
Thursday, September 27
8:30 a.m. – Registration and Check-In (Seminary Hall)
8:45 a.m. – Morning Worship
9:45 a.m. – Workshop Session 1 (Interfaith, Methodology; Interfaith Community; Pluralism and Hinduism; Process Theology and Buddhism; Interfaith and Ecology)
11:15 a.m. – Plenary Three – A Panel of Interreligious Leaders Influenced by Dr. Sun Hwan Pyun
Moderator: Bishop Hee-Soo Jung, Bishop of the Northern Illinois Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church; Panelists: Dr. Heung Gyu Kim, Pastor, Naeri Methodist Church, Korea; Dr. Theodore Jennings, Professor of Biblical and Constructive Theology, Chicago Theological Seminary; Dr. Un-sunn Lee, Professor in Philosophy of Education, Sejong University, Seoul, Korea; Dr. Hyun Sik Chun, Professor of Systematic Theology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
12:45 p.m. – Community Lunch
2:30 p.m. – Plenary Four – The Future of Comparative Theology
Dr. M. Thomas Thangaraj, Professor Emeritus of World Christianity, Candler School of Theology; Visiting Scholar, World Christianity, Boston University School of Theology; Dr. Peter Phan, Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought Georgetown University
4:00 p.m. – Workshop Session II (Interfaith, Methodology; Interfaith Community; Pluralism and Hinduism; Process Theology and Buddhism; Interfaith and Ecology)
5:30 p.m. – Reception
Friday, September 28
8:30 a.m. – Bible Study
9:30 a.m. – Plenary Five – Interreligious Theology, Liberation, and the Church
Dr. Andrew Sung Park, Professor of Theology and Ethics, United Theological Seminary; Dr. Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew Theological School
11:15 a.m. – Morning Worship
12:30 p.m. – Community Lunch
1:45 p.m. – Plenary Six – A Panel of the Present and the Future in the Practice of Interreligious Interactions
Panelists: Dr. Young Chan Ro, Professor of Comparative Religion and Chair in Religious Studies, George Mason University, Virginia; Bishop Sudarshana Devadhar, Bishop of the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church; Dr. Namsoon Kang, Professor of World Christianity and Religions, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University; Dr. Seo Bo Myung, Associate Professor of Theology and Cultural Criticism, Chicago Theological Seminary
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