FACULTY LEADER
Chester Gillis
RELATED PUBLICATIONS
December 2005Political Papacy: John Paul II, Benedict XVI And Their Influence
December 2002
Catholic Faith in America
May 2000
Roman Catholicism in America
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RELATED EVENTS
November 13, 2008The Holy Spirit and the Universality of God's Saving Grace in Human History with Peter Phan
October 30, 2008
Interreligious Dialogue: Chances and Perils with Felicitas Opwis
October 1, 2008
New Frontiers for Interreligious Dialogue, with Dennis McManus
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The Church and Interreligious DialogueSince the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), the Roman Catholic Church has been a key player in interreligious dialogue. The Center examines the Church’s interaction with other religious traditions as well as the challenges posed by increasing cultural and religious pluralism at the local, national, and international levels. |
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RELATED PROJECTS
Catholic-Evangelical DialogueThe Berkley Center is a sponsor of the Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue on the Common Good/Public Policy, inaugurated at Georgetown in April 2008. Two of America's most prominent religious leaders, Pastor Rick Warren and Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, convened discussions focused on how Catholics and Evangelicals can more wisely bring faith to bear on public life, especially regarding issues relating to respect for life and ending poverty. Georgetown participants include President John J. DeGioia, John Borelli, special assistant to the president for interreligious dialogue, and the Center's Chester Gillis. Prominent evangelicals include Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals and Michael Gerson, Washington Post Columnist and former speech writer and advisor to President George W. Bush. The dialogue reconvened in March 2009 at Eastern University, a prominent Baptist institution.
Religion and Religions Seminar Series
How do religions interact with one another in the context of religious pluralism? What are the prospects and pitfalls of interreligious dialogue in the contemporary area. Over the course of the 2008-09 academic year, the Berkley Center's program on The Church and Interreligious Dialogue is sponsoring a series of presentations by Georgetown faculty addressing these questions. An ongoing theme will be whether and how interreligious dialogue sheds new light on the category of religion, advances our understanding of it, makes it more complicated, or diminishes the claims of particular religions.
