"True/False? Right/Wrong? The Challenge of Relativism Today" @ Sheptytsky Institute

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Sheptytsky Institute Study Days – An Eastern Christian Feast for the Mind and Heart – to be held this summer from July 15-18, 2011 at Saint Paul University in Ottawa.

This is the fourth consecutive year that our Institute will be reaching out to the wider community of Eastern and Western Christians in offering an academic and spiritual conference to enlighten their faith. The unique theme this year – True/False? Right/Wrong? The Challenge of Relativism Today – will offer an opportunity to participants to reflect more deeply on their faith.
Study Days July 15- 18, 2011
May 12, 2011

Please click below for the Study Days brochure, registration form, schedule and workshop selection form:

Brochure – Study Days 2011
Study Days 2011 Registration Form
Study Days 2011 Schedule
Workshop Selection Form

Dear Friends of the Institute, please accept our warmest invitation to attend Sheptytsky Institute Study Days – An Eastern Christian Feast for the Mind and Heart – to be held this summer from July 15-18, 2011 at Saint Paul University in Ottawa.

This is the fourth consecutive year that our Institute will be reaching out to the wider community of Eastern and Western Christians in offering an academic and spiritual conference to enlighten their faith. The unique theme this year – True/False? Right/Wrong? The Challenge of Relativism Today – will offer an opportunity to participants to reflect more deeply on their faith.

The plenary/workshop speakers and topics are as follows:

Plenary Speakers:

Dr. Valerie Karras–Relativism and Culture: Connections and Difference
Dr. Adam DeVille–Sentimentality Leads to the Gas Chamber: Emotivistic Relativism and the Slaughter of Innocents
Dr. Peter Bouteneff –Relativism, Tolerance, and Heresy: Negotiating the Waters

Workshop Speakers:

Dr. Brian Butcher–“Public Work,” Private Meaning? (Re)Interpreting the Divine Liturgy in a Post-Modern Age
Father Andriy Chirovsky–Concepts Plundered by Passions: Early Christian Teaching on the Struggle with Tempting Thoughts
Dr. Catherine Clifford–What Happened at Vatican II (1962-1965)? Why is it important for the Eastern Churches?
Father Lucien Coutu–The Jesus Prayer: Getting Centred and Gaining Peace
Father John Jillions–All in the Family: Other Churches and Other Faiths
Father Maxym Lysack–Orthodox Christian Responses to New Age “Spiritualities”
Father Andrew Onuferko–Jesus and Muhammad: “Peace and Blessing Be Upon Them”?
Father Michael Winn–Holiness Unites God’s People: Christian Formation in the Age of Relativism

In addition to the workshops, our Institute is also offering sessions on Cantor Training. These take place on Friday, July 15 (9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) and Monday, July 18 (2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.). Using The Divine Liturgy: An Anthology for Worship, Father Roman Galadza will offer the beginner session and Presvitera Melita Mudri-Zubacz the advanced session.

 

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Jun 09 Podcast:

Ancient Faith Radio presents an interview with Fr. Peter Galadza, the Kule Family Professor of Liturgy at the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, about the institute’s Study Days, which will take place in Ottawa, Ontario, from July 15th through the 18th.