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Imagine a place where your only task as a scholar is to pursue your research in the context of a sustained interdisciplinary conversation on common questions with outstanding colleagues from other fields of inquiry. In the academic world today, the Center of Theological Inquiry is that rare place. Each year, we convene in Princeton a resident team of advanced research scholars from around the worl
04/04/2023
Join Center of Theological Inquiry's Director William Storrar for a conversation with Dominique Steiler, holder of the UNESCO Chair in Economic Peace at the Grenoble Business School in France, on why he sees peacemaking as central to economic life. April 5 at 12:30pm Eastern
To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9616799441304/WN_p1PtFvixTfKVArPSk3Kykg
03/29/2023
Director William Storrar met recently with directors of CTI's new research partner, the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe, Professor Didier Queloz and Professor Emily Mitchell.
The Leverhulme Centre is committed to a dialogue with the Arts and Humanities on the questions raised for humanity by its scientific research on the origins and extent of life in the universe. As a Leverhulme partner, CTI will host a symposium series in Princeton to foster this dialogue.
https://www.ctinquiry.org/news
03/28/2023
What resources can we find in religion traditions for thinking through the moral challenge of economic inequality?
Listen in to the Theology Matters podcast "The Use of Money and Economic Language in Religion" with CTI Member Devin Singh and host Joshua Mauldin.
https://soundcloud.com/8ltxez6g7yqq/season-2-ep-1-with-devin-singh
03/27/2023
What do we mean by economic peace?
Join Dominique Steiler - professor, fighter pilot, executive coach, and CTI Member in conversation with the Center of Theological Inquiry's Director William Storrar for "The Practice of Peacemaking" second in the Peacemakers: Casting Light on Conflict series. April 5 at 12:30pm Eastern
To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9616799441304/WN_p1PtFvixTfKVArPSk3Kykg
The built environment is integral to the flourishing of human communities. In 2020-21, CTI Members explored how religion and theology intersect with the challenges of architecture and urban design.
Read more about their work and research:https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6310f6ad323be272627d7303/t/631f2b9a9916ee5ecd473f52/1662987173129/CTIResearchReport_BuiltEnvironment.pdf
03/16/2023
Introduction to the Special Issue “Nonviolence and Religion” Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in 2001, many scholarly debates have focused on the relationship between religion and violence [...]
03/14/2023
Do we have the capacity for peace? Join Director William Storrar online tomorrow for the first of three conversations on peacemaking in a world of conflict. The first guest is theologian Michael Welker on why he sees being made in the image of God as a call to peacemaking. 3/15 @ 12:30pm Eastern
To register for the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6516783884899/WN_bfDcNdqgR9WX1Ud7JKyhvw
03/10/2023
What are the conditions that trigger our potential for violence and what are the conditions that lead us to a saintly path?
Wolfgang Palaver,CTI Member and Professor of Theology at the University of Innsbruck, discusses his book, “Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness: Reflecting on Violence and Religion with René Girard," which explores the complex relationship between religion and violence and why we should reverse the order of this often paired relationship to violence and religion.
Listen to the Theology Matters podcast here with host Joshua Mauldin https://soundcloud.com/8ltxez6g7yqq/cti-member-books-wolfgang
03/09/2023
Do we have the capacity to make peace?
In the first of three conversations, The Source of Peacemaking,
Director William Storrar speaks with theologian Michael Welker on why he sees being made in the image of God as a call to peacemaking.
Join us on March 15 at 12:30pm Eastern
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6516783884899/WN_bfDcNdqgR9WX1Ud7JKyhvw
03/08/2023
Exploring Questions of Gender, Justice, and Design
CTI Member Elise Edwards discusses her journey from architect to theologian sharing how theology answered her question of “how we want to live and how architecture relates to that.”
Listen here to the Theology Matters podcast from Season 5: https://soundcloud.com/8ltxez6g7yqq/religion-the-built-environment-ep-3-with-elise-edwards
03/07/2023
"The challenge is how to understand theology in an increasingly pluralistic world."
Read the full article, "Discussion with David Fergusson"
Colloquy: Discussion with David Fergusson — Center of Theological Inquiry David Fergusson and I sat down for a conversation in mid-September in the way that so many meetings happen these days, via Zoom. Fergusson is now Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, havingarrived in this position in April 2021, following two decades of distinguished service at the
03/06/2023
"How much of our spirituality is embodied as the boundary between reality and virtuality becomes blurry?"
Read the full article by CTI Member Nesrine Mansour:
When reality and virtuality become blurry — Center of Theological Inquiry This journey starts with a large conceptually-transcendent interior space possessing an axial plan directing the procession from the portal located at the rear wall to the apse hosting the altar. The procession goes through a long nave and two side aisles divided by two rows of eight stone pillars e
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