Event Title
Dialogue of Civilizations: A Religious Perspective
Start Date
18-4-2013 11:45 AM
Location
Science Teaching Student Services – Room 230
University of Minnesota
222 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Admission
Free and open to the public; RSVP required (lunch provided)
Description
In a follow up to the previous night’s lecture, Fr. Thomas Michel spoke about basic principles of interfaith dialogue, including the need for openness to those whose religious or ethnic group is different from our own, accepting them as they are, without feeling that we have to change them and make them like ourselves.
Sponsored by the Niagara Foundation in collaboration with Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning, the Bosphorous Dialogue Association, the Jewish Community Relations Council, St. Paul Interfaith Network, and the Turkish American Society of Minnesota
Fr. Thomas Michel, Ph.D.
Dialogue of Civilizations: A Religious Perspective
Science Teaching Student Services – Room 230
University of Minnesota
222 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
In a follow up to the previous night’s lecture, Fr. Thomas Michel spoke about basic principles of interfaith dialogue, including the need for openness to those whose religious or ethnic group is different from our own, accepting them as they are, without feeling that we have to change them and make them like ourselves.
Sponsored by the Niagara Foundation in collaboration with Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning, the Bosphorous Dialogue Association, the Jewish Community Relations Council, St. Paul Interfaith Network, and the Turkish American Society of Minnesota