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Can religious beliefs motivate horrific acts of violence? Since the events of Sept. 11th, many of us have asked if religious faith serves as a source of violence or of peace in our world. This panel will broaden the question: inviting us to consider both the secular and the religious sources of violence and of peace in modern civilization. Has our society created political, philosophical, and economic systems that promote or undermine peace among different peoples and among different religions? Are there ways to change our understanding of how different religions may co-exist within modern civilization? Mr. Peter Ochs and Mr. John Milbank will explore and debate the contributions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to our conception of religious life in today's world. |
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Download an essay entitled 9/11 and the Children of Abraham by Peter Ochs. This is a Microsoft Word .doc file. Download the list of resources for the October 9th Panel in pdf format. You need Adobe Acrobat reader to view this document. Professor
Milbank's books include: Truth in Aquinas. (Routledge, 2001) The Word Made Strange: Theology, Language, Culture. (Blackwell Publishers, 1997) Professor
Ochs' recent publications include: Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, with Steven Kepnes and Robert Gibbs (Boulder and San Francisco: Westview Press/Perseus, 1998) Reviewing the Covenant: Eugene Borowitz and the Postmodern Renewal of Jewish Theology, with Eugene Borowitz (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000) Christianity in Jewish Terms, eds. T. Frymer-Kensky , D. Novak, P. Ochs, D. Sandmel, M. Signer, (Boulder , Co: Westview Press/Perseus for the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies: Sept, 2000) John Howard Yoder, The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited, eds. M. Cartwright and P. Ochs (with Introduction and Commentary) (London: SCM Press, forthcoming, 2002) Textual
Reasonings, eds. Peter Ochs and Nancy Levene (London: SCM Press,
forthcoming, 2002). Peter
Ochs and the Children of Abraham Institute were featured last weekend
on a PBS program, "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly." The segment
examined the significance of the story of Abraham to Christians,
Muslims, and Jews and how it relates to the conflict in the Middle
East. The story is featured on the Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
Web site at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics
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John Milbank is Frances Myers Ball Professor of Philosophical
Theology in the Department of Religious Studies at the University
of Virginia. His academic interests include philosophical and
systematic theology, theology and the human sciences, metaphysics
and history, and the foundations of ethics. He is the author of
Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason; The
Word Made Strange: Theology, Language, and Culture; and
most recently, Truth in Aquinas. 
Peter
Ochs is the Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies.
He received a B.A. from Yale College, an M.A. from the Jewish
Theological Seminary, and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He is
founding editor of two journals published online by the University's
Jewish Studies program: 