Lamin Sanneh to give the 2005 Pascal Lectures
Public lecture: Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in a Secular West
- Thursday, October 27, 2005, 8:00 p.m.
- Hagey Hall of the Humanities
Seminar: Christian Mission and Western Guilt
- Friday October 28, 2005, 3:30 p.m.
- Davis Centre, room 1304
Biography on Lamin Sanneh
Professor Lamin Sanneh was educated on four continents, studied Arabic at the American University of Beirut, and worked with churches in Lebanon on relations with Muslims. His PhD is in Islamic History at the University of London (UK). He has many years involved in dialogue meetings at the World Council of Churches and in Rome. He is the D. Willis James Professor of Missions & World Christianity and Professor of History at Yale University. In the lecture Sanneh will examine how Christianity and Islam are or should be meeting the fact of western secularism from their respective theological perspectives and how that affects the relationship between them. In the seminar he will discuss whether the current pervasive understanding of the negative impact of colonialism truly reflects the whole story.
Associate event: Reflections on World Christianity
- Opening lecture at the Wilfrid Laurier Faith Forum
- Friday, October 28, 2005, 7:00 p.m.
- Bricker Academic Building, room 102
