Posted - October 14, 2010

Interreligious encounters and dialogue topic of religion colloquium

October 28 - 12:15 pm

The Rev. Garry Sparks will discuss interreligious encounters and dialogue at a meeting of the Garrison Theology Colloquium at Eureka College at 12:15 p.m. Oct. 28 in the East Room in Dickinson Commons on east College Avenue.

The free forum for Eureka College faculty, staff and students; area ministers; and the public will draw from Sparks’ work with the highland Maya of Guatemala as a graduate student and previously as a representative of Global Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ.

Sparks also will lead a discussion about strategies for mission trips at 5 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Gammon Room at Melick Library at Eureka College.

Sparks is completing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago. The dissertation translates and draws lessons from 16th-century accounts of Mayan theology written in K’iche’ by highland Mayan elite and a Spanish Dominican missionary. 

For an advance text of the colloquium discussion, contact Eureka College religion professor William Wright at wwright@eureka.edu.

The colloquium meets regularly to discuss contemporary issues in theology.
It is named for W.E. Garrison, a historian and theologian who graduated from Eureka College in 1892 and helped found The Christian Century magazine.

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