“Humanity before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian,
and Islamic Ethics”
The 2003 D. R. Sharpe Lectures on Social Ethics
October 21-23, 2003
On
October 21-23, 2003, the Divinity School brings together a group of Jewish,
Christian, and Islamic scholars—philosophers, theologians, ethicists
and legal thinkers—for the 2003 D.R. Sharpe Lectures entitled “Humanity
before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics.”
The purpose of the 2003 D.R. Sharpe Lectures is to examine anew the shared
ways in which the three monotheistic faiths in the Abrahamic tradition
conceive the idea of humanity before God, and how each contributes to
contemporary understandings of fundamental claims about the inalienable
sanctity and dignity of human life. The conference as a whole has invited
papers that reflect on and explore three dimensions of the complex idea
of human life in connection to the image of God motif in Genesis
or the theme of viceregency in the Qur’an: (1) the distinctiveness
of human being; (2) natural and embodied life; and (3) the social, political,
and cultural dimensions of life. The conference will feature an opening
keynote address by Hilary Putnam, Cogan University Professor (Emeritus)
at Harvard University, a closing keynote address by Seyyed Hossein Nasr,
University Professor at George Washington University, and other lectures
by prominent Jewish, Islamic, and Christian scholars. For more information,
please visit the conference website at http://sharpelectures.uchicago.edu.
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