Please join us for our 2024 Forgiveness Symposium:
The Jain-Christian Interreligious Dialogue on Forgiveness
This year (2024), We organize the Forgiveness Symposium titled, Jain-Christian Interreligious Dialogue on the concept, philosophy, and practices on the notion of Forgiveness in both Jain and Christian religious traditions. The symposium will have two parts. First, there will be two keynote speakers representing both Jain and Christian traditions, who will deliver a talk on the concept on forgiveness in each tradition as well as with a focus on interreligious aspect. The keynote talks will be followed by a Respondents’ Forum session in which select invited students of CST will respond to the talks of the keynote speakers. The second part of the symposium is aimed at providing students with the opportunity to present on the theme of forgiveness with an interreligious perspective. A call for paper announcement will be circulated to invite abstracts.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
10am to 3pm Pacific
via Zoom
Please register below:
Featured Speakers:
Program:
Session 1: 10:00 am to 12:45 pm Pacific time – Keynote Addresses & Respondents’ Forum
Session 2: 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm Pacific time – Student Paper Presentations
Detailed schedule coming soon!
Speaker Bios:
Dr. Christopher Key Chapple
Title: Forgiveness in Interfaith Perspective: Self Reflection and Taking Moral Inventory
Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. A specialist in the religions of India, he has published more than twenty books, including the recent Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas and The Samkhya System: Accounting for the Real (SUNY Press 2020, 2024). He serves as advisor to multiple organizations including the Forum on Religion and Ecology (Yale), the Jain Studies Centre (SOAS, London), the South Asian Studies Association, and the International School for Jain Studies (Pune).
Dr. Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan
Title: “Forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you”: Forgiveness in the Christian Tradition
Dr. Kuan served as the President of Claremont School of Theology from 2013 t0 2023. He currently serves the school as President Emeritus, Professor of Hebrew Bible, and Chief Strategy Officer. Before coming to CST, he was Dean and Professor of Hebrew Bible of the Theological School at Drew University. His research and teaching interests include ancient Israelite and Near Eastern history, Asian and Asian American hermeneutics, the Book of Job, as well as approaches to biblical instruction for the churches. As a theological educator, he is a strong proponent of religious pluralism and passionately committed to justice issues in the global and local contexts. He currently serves on many boards, including the Advisory Council of Arihanta Institute, the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, the In Trust Center for Theological Schools, the International Association of Methodist-related Schools, Colleges and Universities, and United Methodist Higher Education Foundation. Since 2018, he has served as a co-convener of the National Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, co-sponsored by the National Council of Churches, Hsi Lai Temple, University of the West, Claremont School of Theology, and The Guibord Center.