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A partnership between The Russell Berrie Foundation and the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), The John Paul Center for Interreligious Dialogue builds bridges between Catholic, Jewish and other religious traditions by providing the next generation of religious leaders with the opportunity to comprehensively study interfaith issues at the Angelicum.
Located in Rome, the Angelicum is an ecclesiastical Dominican center where 150 professors from 30 countries, and 1200 students from 90 countries work and study in Theology, Philosophy, Canon Law and Social Sciences. Past graduates have gone on to hold positions of leadership in the Catholic Church, among them, Pope John Paul II.
The Russell Berrie Foundation has engaged the Institute for International Education (IIE) to administer this initiative. IIE is among the world's most experienced international education and training organizations. Each year, over 20,000 men and women from 175 countries participate in IIE programs, including the Fulbright Program.
The Russell Berrie Foundation (RBF) carries on the values of the late Russell Berrie: promoting the continuity of the Jewish people, fostering religious understanding and pluralism, supporting humanistic medical care and celebrating unsung heroes.
Pope John Paul II Annual Lecture on Interreligious Dialogue
Tuesday, 5 April 2011 at 4:00 PM
at the Aula Minor of the Pontifical University St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Largo Angelicum 1, Rome
The John Paul II Annual Lecture features a world religious leader who embodies the ideals of interreligious understanding. In its fourth year, this prestigious Lecture raises the profile of interreligious studies at the Angelicum and around the world.
This year's speaker is Professor David Ford, a world's renowned Angelican theologian, the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, England, and director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme. For more information about Prof. Ford, click here.
Transcript of his Lecture, "Jews, Christians and Muslims Meet around their Scriptures: An Inter-faith Practice for the Twenty-first Century" can be viewed here.
Video footage of the Lecture is available here.
Short Term Course on the Key Chapters in the Guide to the Perplexed
Between October 11 and 19, the Russell Berrie Fellows will have the oportunity to attend a short term course offered by Prof. Menachem Lorberbaum on the Key Chapters in the Guide to the Perplexed. Introducing Maimonides and his work, Prof.Lorberbaum focused on the questions such as Maimonides' religious quest, his considerations of the personal perfection and political responsibility, and contemplating God's work. Department of Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University (2004) and is the founding chair of the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies (2004-2008). Prof. Lorberbaum is also a founding member of the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem and is a senior fellow of its Advanced Institute for Judaic Studies.
Prof. Menachem Lorberbaum is author of Politics and the Limits of Law (Stanford 2001; Hebrew: 2006) and We are Dazzled by His Beauty (Hebrew, Ben Zvi Institute, Forthcoming). Together with Professors Michael Walzer of Princeton and Noam Zohar of Bar-Ilan he is a senior editor of the Jewish Political Tradition series (vol 1 "Authority," Yale University Press 2000, Hebrew: 2007; vol. 2 "Membership," Yale University Press 2003). He is editor of the new and first complete Hebrew translation of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (Shalem 2009). His Hebrew collection of papers in political philosophy, Leviathan in the Holy Land, has been accepted for publication by Yediot Aharonot publishers.
Prof. Lorberbaum has also published three volumes of Hebrew verse and is together with Dr. Michal Govrin, editor of the Devarim poetry series of Carmel publishers. His new book of translation and poetics Transpositions is now in preparation.
Marshall J. Breger is a Professor of Law at the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic
University of America where he teaches Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, International
Law, and Legal Issues of the Mid East Peace Process.
In addition Prof. Breger will offer a course at the Angelicum entitled Legal and religious Issues related to Jerusalem.This course will consider Jewish, Christian and Muslim theological views toward the holy
places in Jerusalem. This will include consideration of church history, canon law, Jewish law
sharia and various Muslim fatwas concerning Jerusalem. This course is offered from 5:30 to 7:15 PM – Monday through Thursday [November15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 2010] at the Angelicum, Largo Angelicum, 1.