With Heart and Mind: event 5
Saturday 6 October 2001 from 10 am to 4 pm
Change and Challenge in Multi-faithful Britain
A workshop with Elizabeth Harris
Saturday 6 October 2001
10 am — 4 pm
Bring a packed lunch
£10 waged • £5 low-waged • £2 unwaged
A part of the ‘With heart and mind’ series
‘With heart and mind’ is a series of workshops and lectures at All Hallows Church during 2001 which seeks to explore a radical contemporary reading of the Christian tradition, bringing it into dialogue with depth psychology, science, politics and other faith traditions. The aim is to feed both heart and mind, encouraging the use of both reason and intuition in our shared quest for hope and meaning.
Change and Challenge in Multi-faithful Britain
Morning Session: Jesus through the eyes of other faiths
Jesus is not the possession of Christians. He is honoured by name within Islam and the Baha’i faith. Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs have written about him. How should Christians react to the differing views that result? Should they insist that the Jesus of Christian tradition should not be compromised or should they be radically open to change?
Afternoon Session: Passing over in order to come back
Is it possible to try to see the world through the eyes of another faith? What does it involve? What is the cost, and what the benefit? Elizabeth Harris will share something of her own journey into Theravada Buddhism and how this has changed her.
Dr Elizabeth Harris is currently Secretary for Inter-Faith Relations for the Methodist Church in Britain and a consultant to the Churches’ Commission for Inter-Faith Relations. She has a doctorate in Buddhist studies and worked in Sri Lanka for seven years, based at the Ecumenical Institute for Study and Dialogue and the Tulana Research Centre. In 1996 she wrote and presented The Way of the Buddha for the BBC World Service, which provided the material for her book What Buddhists Believe, published by Oneworld in 1998. She is a member of the European Network of Buddhist—Christian Studies and the UK Association of Buddhist Studies.
For further details contact Ray Gaston on 0113-242 2205
or e-mail
contact@allhallowsleeds.org.uk
To make sure of your place, please send in your booking form with payment by 30 September. After this date please contact Ray Gaston to check availability.
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