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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nThe Faculty of Religious Studies\, along with the Centre 
 for\nResearch on Religion and the Religious Studies Graduate Society\,\nar
 e proud to host a symposium in honour of Dr. Maurice Boutin\,\nMcConnell E
 meritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion at 91ºÚÁÏÍø.\nFeatured speakers 
 include Gabriel Vahanian\, Arvind Sharma\, and some\nof Dr. Boutin's forme
 r students who are now academics in their own\nright.\nDr. Boutin taught P
 hilosophical Theology at the Université\nde Montréal from 1972. He was the
  John W. McConnell Professor\nof Philosophy of Religion at 91ºÚÁÏÍø Universi
 ty's Faculty of\nReligious Studies\, from 1991 to June 2010.   Since 1975\
 ,\nhe has been a member of the International Colloquiums on\nHermeneutics 
 (Rome\, Italy)\, founded by Enrico Castelli.  From\n1981 to 1987\, he was 
 President of the Canadian Corporation for\nStudies in Religion. He was als
 o awarded a State Ph.D. from the\nUniversity of Munich\, Germany\, with a 
 dissertation published in the\nseries Beiträge zur evangelischen Theologie
  (1974)\, with the title\n'Relationalität als Verstehensprinzip bei Rudolf
  Bultmann'\n(Munich: Chr. Kaiser Verlag – Relationality as Understanding\n
 Principle in R. Bultmann’s Thought).  Dr. Boutin has published\narticles i
 n German\, French\, Swiss\, American\, and Canadian journals\,\nand also c
 hapters in books in Germany\, Italy\, France\, Canada\, and\nthe United St
 ates.\nThe symposium will consider 'thinking about the divine' in light\no
 f the following:\nPhilosophy of religion\, once a monolithic and seemingly
  rigid\ndiscipline of analyzing topics such as God’s existence\, the probl
 em\nof evil\, religious language and experience\, has become far more\ndiv
 ersified in character and in scope. Polyphonic is the catchall\nof this fo
 rm of thinking\, which may be more accurately described in\nterms of ‘poly
 graphic’ in deference to Derrida and the tradition\ncritical of ontotheolo
 gy. Continental reflection is tropical in\nnature\, interrupting the tende
 ncy to straightjacket thought by the\notherwise excellent heritage of the 
 Enlightenment. The desire to\nsiphon insight into manageable packets of in
 formation\,\npropositions\, is subverted in the name of historicality and
 \nfinitude. A polyphonic\, then\, is variegated\; it is\, discontinuous\,
 \ntoo\, in the sense not of being simply erratic but of marking a\nbreak w
 ith a tradition that desires diachrony\, continuity\, and\nunification.\n
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LOCATION:Birks Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2A7\, 3520 rue Universit
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SUMMARY:Polyphonic: Thinking about the Divine
URL:/channels/event/polyphonic-thinking-about-divine-1
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