The 2003 D.R. Sharpe Lectures on Social Ethics
October 21-23, 2003
Humanity before God:
Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics
Announcement
On October
21-23, the Divinity School brings together a group of Jewish, Christian,
and Islamic scholars—philosophers, theologians, ethicists and
legal thinkers—for the 2003 D.R. Sharpe Lectures entitled “Humanity
before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics.”
The purpose of the 2003 D.R. Sharpe Lectures is to examine anew the
shared ways in which the three monotheistic faiths in the Abrahamic
tradition conceive the idea of humanity before God, and how each contributes
to contemporary understandings of fundamental claims about the inalienable
sanctity and dignity of human life. The conference as a whole has
invited papers that reflect on and explore three dimensions of the
complex idea of human life in connection to the image of God motif
in Genesis or the theme of viceregency in the Qur’an: (1) the
distinctiveness of human being; (2) natural and embodied life; and
(3) the social, political, and cultural dimensions of life. The conference
will feature a keynote address by Hilary Putnam, Cogan University
Professor (Emeritus) at Harvard University, a closing keynote address
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor at George Washington
University, and lectures by prominent Jewish, Islamic, and Christian
scholars.
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