Dialogical Theology: A Conversation with Wolfram Weisse

November 4, 2019
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST
Location: New North Room 107 Map

Interreligious dialogue has gained central importance during the last 20 years in the academic as well as in the public arena. A strongly dialogically oriented theology was developed in recent years in the context of a five-year research project called ReDi: Religion and Dialogue in Modern Societies, housed at the Academy of World Religions, Hamburg University, Germany. In an interdisciplinary and internationally comparative approach, researchers in Scandinavia, England, Germany, and the United States from different religious traditions studied interreligious dialogue and produced an approach called dialogical theology.

This presentation featured Wolfram Weisse, who led the ReDi project. He discussed the design of the project and then focused on the approach of dialogical theology, explaining its concept and highlighting the main results of the research, namely a newly developed dialogical interreligious hermeneutics.

Lunch was served.

This event was co-sponsored by Georgetown University's Department of Theology and its Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

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About Wolfram Weisse

Wolfram Weisse has been a professor of education with special emphasis on religious education and ecumenical theology at Hamburg University since 1992. He is now a senior research fellow at the Academy of World Religions at Hamburg University. His research interests include religious education, interreligious and intercultural learning in a multicultural context, and ecumenical and interfaith theology, with a focus on South Africa and Europe. Weisse founded an interfaith dialogue circle in Hamburg in 1995, became the director of an interdisciplinary center, World Religion in Dialogue, at the University of Hamburg in 2006, and was founding director of the Academy of World Religions from 2010-2017.

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About Daniel Madigan

Rev. Daniel Madigan, S.J., an Australian Jesuit priest, is Rector of Newman College at the University of Melbourne, and Chair of The Loyola Institute at Australian Catholic University. From 2008 to 2021 he was the Jeanette W. and Otto J. Ruesch Family Associate Professor in Georgetown University’s Department of Theology and Religious Studies; he continues to be a faculty fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and associate professor emeritus at Georgetown. He has been involved with the annual Building Bridges Seminar since 2003 and in 2012 was appointed chair. His interests include Qur’anic studies, interreligious dialogue, and comparative theology, with a special focus on Muslim-Christian relations. Madigan previously taught in Rome (2000-2007), where he was the founder and director of the Pontifical Gregorian University's Institute for the Study of Religions and Cultures. He is the author of The Qur’an’s Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islam’s Scripture (2001) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the Qur’an (2022). Madigan holds a B.A. from Monash University, B.D. from Melbourne College of Divinity, and M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

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