Hartford Seminary presents
Willem A. Bijlefeld Lecture
A Theology of Compassionate Neighborliness: Building on "A Common Word"
with Aref Ali Nayed
Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Hartford Seminary, 77 Sherman Street, Hartford
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In a shattered and frightened world searching for a ‘Security Architecture,’ “A Common Word,” stemming from a massive Muslim consensus, and greeted by a massive Christian consensus, is a solid foundation for jointly building an alternative ‘Compassion Architecture’. This lecture will explore the theological presuppositions, intentions, and implications of “A Common Word,” and build on them. An outline of a Theology of Compassionate Neighborliness is then offered for the sake of living together - in love of God and love of neighbor.
For additional information about “A Common Word,” see www.acommonword.com.
Dr. Aref Ali Nayed is Senior Advisor to the Cambridge Interfaith Program at the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. He is a fellow of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Amman, Jordan, and academic and interfaith advisor for the Tabah Foundation, 
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Nayed is a former professor at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (Rome) and a former professor at the International Institute for Islamic Thought and Civilization (Malaysia). He has participated in several interfaith initiatives involving the Vatican, the World Council of Churches, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Evangelicals, and worked closely with Muslim scholars and institutions including the Islamic Call Society of Libya, the Dar al-Iftaa of Egypt, Tabah Foundation of the UAE, and the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought of Jordan. The most recent of such initiatives has been “A Common Word.”
Cost: free
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For more information, contact Yvette Law at (860) 509-9555 or events@hartsem.edu.
