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HKU St John’s College Martin Lectures 2014 “Moslem-Christian Dialogue: Sexuality and Gender” (English Only)

2014年09月23日

The Martin Lecture entitled “Moslem-Christian Dialogue: Sexuality and Gender” will be held at  Room 109 , Lower Ground (LG) K. K. Leung Building, University of Hong Kong from 9:00am to 1:00pm on October 4, 2014.

The Martin Lectures started many years ago to commemorate the work of a caring pioneer, the Revd. Ernest Martin, and to celebrate his spirituality and life. Past speakers invited included Michael Ramsey, John Macquarrie, Don Cuppitt, Jens Scherpe, et al.

These lectures are intended to create awareness and understanding of issues of importance to the Church and the Community at large; to educate through rational and in-depth discussions; to point towards possible courses of action thus beginning a process of acceptance, reconciliation, and healing; and the righting of wrongs.

This year’s Martin Lectures will endeavor to create a dialogue between Moslems and Christians on Sexuality and Gender. The Moslem’s and Eastern Orthodox views will be presented first and to be followed with a review from an Asian and Protestant perspective.  Through a better understanding of each other’s positions of faith and theology, it is hoped that a better understanding can be achieved by creating a dialogue without prejudice.

We need to start with a better understanding, then we would be able to appreciate the complexities of sexuality and gender, as both a bio-psychological phenomena and a socio-religio construct, constantly being challenged, manipulated, and reconstructed by new understanding of medical sciences, and the forces of globalization, economics, and agendas (visible and invisible) of religious and political leaderships.

The following are speakers and their topics at the lectures:

Speaker:  Prof. Dr. Niyazi Öktem, University of Fatih-Istanbul, Turkey
Topic:  Gender and Sexuality In a Modern Moslem Secular State, Turkey        

Speaker:  Bishop Sahak Mashalian, University of Fatih-Istanbul, Turkey
Topic:  Faith and Gender Formations: In the Context of Eastern Orthodox Christianity    

Speaker:  Revd. Cn. Dr. Eric Chong, St John’s College, University of Hong Kong
Topic:  Faith and Gender Pluralism: Pre-modern to Modern Asian Contexts

The Convenor:  Revd. Duncan Dormor, St John’s College, University of Cambridge
Reflections and Issues:  Perspectives on Moslem-Christian Dialogue on Sexuality and Gender          

Please contact Ms Tiffany Lam of St John’s College for enquiries on the event at tiffany.lam@stjohns.hk or 2817 7102.