Please Join Us for the The NELC Department Spring Reception & The Ninth Annual Victor Danner Memorial Lecture
“Servants of the All-Merciful”: Building Communities of Realization in a Global Civilization
Presented by Professor James W. Morris, Boston College
Monday, April 18, 2011
Beginning at 5:30 PM
University Club, IMU
Refreshments Served
It is always easier, in any age, to notice the public and often violent disintegration of a familiar civilization, than the creation and gradual coalescence of newer forms of cultural and spiritual community. Borrowing some perspectives of Ibn ‘Arabi, this Danner lecture examines some of the contemporary uses and transformations of the pathways of realization elaborated in earlier Islamic settings, the traditional disciplines of philosophy,
art, and spiritual practice devoted to exploring the divine Signs “on the horizons and in their souls” (Qur’an 41:53). It concludes by noting some of the opportunities -and obligations- which our global situation has created for creative, constructive cooperation across older religious and civilizational boundaries.
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