NEWSBLAST: Religious Truth Conference

The Elijah Interfaith Institute invites all its friends in Jerusalem to two sessions in the framework of the World Congress of Jewish Studies. The sessions will feature the "Jewish Theology of Religions" project, where Jewish thinkers consider key aspects of theology, as they apply to Judaism's views of other religions. The sessions will focus on the notion of "Religious Truth" and how it might be understood in the framework of contemporary interfaith relations.

Sessions will take place on Sunday, July 28th at the Humanities Building of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Campus, Room 2605.

09:00 - 11:00
Thinking Religious Truth in Relation to Historical Precedents:
Classical and Philosophical Resources

Chair: Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Cass Fisher:Divine Perfection and Religious Language: What Do We Mean by Truth Claims?
Steve Copeland: Pluralist Inclusiveness in Jewish Sources as Potential Openness to Truth in Other
Religious Traditions
Michael Fagenblat: Religious Truth: A Phenomenology of Religious Experience

11:30 - 13:30
Truth, Reason and Religious Experience: Hassidic Resources

Chair: Nehama Verbin
Alon Goshen-Gottstein :The Truth Beyond and Beyond Truth - Two Understandings of Religious Truth in the Breslav Tradition
Or Rose: “One Thing I Ask of God...”: Revelation and the Limits of Human Knowing in Early Hasidism
Joint Readings of Hasidic Sources: Alon Goshen-Gottstein

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