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Annual Lecture Christianity and Society well attended
The 2012 Annual Lecture Christianity and Society held by Cardinal Godfried Danneels on February 16, was well attended by 70 guests in the audience. This year's lecture carried the title: At the crossroads of faith and culture. Challenges facing the Catholic Church today.
In his lecture, the cardinal did not raise the issue of sexual abuse in the Church, but instead talked about the spiritual crisis that the Church faces nowadays. This crisis, according to the cardinal, is caused by the ever-widening gap between the truth as expressed by the Church and Christianity, versus modern secular life and science.
Several Dutch media wrote about the Annual Lecture (all articles are in Dutch):
"Danneels pleit voor authentieke levensstijl"
Katholiek Nieuwsblad
"Periode van ballingschap heilzaam"
Nederlands Dagblad
"Positief nieuws kerk dringt niet door in de media"
Reformatorisch Dagblad
"Kerk moet weer geloofwaardig zijn"
Het Goede Leven (Friesch Dagblad)
The Annual Lecture and the responses by the co-referees:
2012 Annual Lecture Christianity and Society
by Cardinal Godfried Danneels
Response to the annual lecture
by Dr. Kees de Groot
Response to the annual lecture
by Prof.dr. Wim van de Donk:
This response will follow soon.
"Embodied Religion"
The 19th conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion
August 30th - September 2nd 2012, Soesterberg (near Utrecht), the Netherlands
Principal Organizers
Prof. Dr. Peter Jonkers (Tilburg University) - e-mail: p.h.a.i.jonkers@uvt.nl
Prof. Dr. Marcel Sarot (Utrecht University) - e-mail: m.sarot@uu.nl
Call for Short Papers
The short papers should preferably be related to the conference-theme (and to one of the four sessions). Set-up short papers: 20’ presentation time (max. 2300 words), followed by 10’ discussion.Deadline for submitting abstracts of the short-papers to the principal organizers: 1 March 2012. Maximum number of words of the abstracts: 350.
Registration
Deadline for registration for the conference (at one of the principal organizers): 1 May 2012Click here for more information about registration.
Main Speakers
Keynote: Ola Sigurdson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)Session 1: Jonna Bornemark (Södertörn University, Stockholm) and Petruschka Schaafsma (Protestant Theological University, the Netherlands)
Session 2: Roderich Barth (University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) and Mark Wynn (University of Exeter, UK)
Session 3: Marcel Sarot (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and Aku Visala (Oxford University, UK)
Session 4: Ingolf U. Dalferth (University of Zürich, Switzerland / Claremont Graduate School, USA) and John Cottingham (University of Reading, UK)
Click here for a complete description of the conference including the 4 sessions.
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