We are very delighted to have two speakers from Cambridge and respondent from Hong Kong. The webinar will focus on Catholic Social Teaching and the Common Good and why Catholic Social Teaching is not aligned with any particular politico-economic system, and how this works in practice.
Dr Mary Yuen, Professor of Social Ethics at Holy Spirit Seminary College of Theology and Philosophy. Her recent publications include Solidarity and Reciprocity with the Marginalized Migrants. Palgrave macmillan, 2020 and “The Poor Workers in an Affluent City.” In Street Homelessness and Catholic Theological Ethics, edited by James F. Keenan and Mark McGreevy. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2019. Her research interests in economic, environmental/ecological ethics, social and feminist ethics, globalization and human rights.
Zoom link Topic:
Time: Oct 31, 2022, Mon 5:30pm HK (9:30am UK)
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Asian readers of the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament) bring with them their own religio-cultural texts and the socio-political contexts into the reading processes, demonstrating that this practice in Asian Christianity and biblical hermeneutics cannot be avoided, nor should it be undermined. This presentation does not only argue against the “text-context interpretive mode” which seems to presuppose that Asia is always the “context” without its own “text” when it comes to reading the Bible, but also proposes a different approach of “cross-textual reading” strategy that intends to address the Asian multi-textual reality, which reflects the religiosity and spirituality of Asian people.
In Chinese Bible translation, Zhuangzi’s notions of “kongxu” (空虚) and “hundun” (混沌) have been adopted for both the Protestant and Catholic renderings of Genesis 1. It is the aim of this presentation to re-examine the appropriateness of the Chinese terminology for the interpretation of the Hebrew words of “tohu vbohu” (תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ) in the biblical creation narratives.
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This talk will describe the dynamic complexity of collaboration between people with lived experience of
mental illness, their clergy and their clinicians. We will first examine wellbeing and community support
that calls on no clinicians. We will also describe borders between the work of faith communities and
that of clinicians. This will help us identify how to then bridge these borders to provide the care that is
needed by some persons so that they can return to their communities. Throughout the talk we will discuss
the ethical imperative in Isaiah 58:6-9 to reach out horizontally to our communities as more important than
the desire to reach vertically to God. I would be very interested in how this horizontal/vertical ethic and
theology of Isaiah compares to Confucian ideas or other Chinese religious traditions that the discussant might offer.
Speaker:
Dr. Milstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at The City College of the City University of New York, where students come from 110 countries. He teaches Immigration Psychology, as well as the Civic Engagement of Religion. Each is studied from a lifespan development and prevention science perspective, which can elucidate both resilience and risks. His research investigates and facilitates the intersections of religion and mental health, as well as immigration and psychological resilience. Our team developed and implements the Clergy Outreach and Professional Engagement (COPE) paradigm to create programs that promote collaboration between faith based organizations and health or education professionals, which improve the continuity of wellness and acculturation. We have worked with community mental health centers, local schools, the Red Cross, as well as the United States Military and Veteran Affairs. Dr. Milstein lectures locally, nationally and internationally. Central to all this work is helping persons to develop or regain their own sense of “home”.
Respondent: Rev. Dominic White and Prof. Edmund Kwok
Centre for Quality-Life Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Zoom link Topic: May 10, 2022 5pm HK (10am UK)
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“Are they educable in faith?” is a question that some evangelistic church workers of Hong Kong asked when providing religious care to persons having intellectual disabilities. The issue that this presentation intends to address is a certain problematic conception of selfhood that have made Christians without disabilities misconceive individuals with cognitive impairment as inferior in the matter of faith or even incapable of coming to faith. I intend to show that it is an unhelpful myth. The first part of my critique will be given through describing three kinds of perceptions about the relationship between faith and severe intellectual disabilities and their undesirable impact; and secondly through a review of literature and their implications to the practices of care.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84243916484pwd=LzVRdWlFZmgzQmNFYTNsWDRzdlA0UT09
Time: Apr 29, 2022 5pm HK (10am UK)
Meeting ID: 881 7826 9130
Passcode: 661345
Content of Talk:
his talk provides an outline of intercultural theology of prayer in border crossing with deep learning from Neo-Confucian spirituality, and therefore to develop a Chines Christian theory and practice of “learning of Mind and Heart”. It can be metaphorized as a spirituality of “swimming with Christ” in Neo-Confucian terminology. Christian prayer, as an action of God’s grace, is also God’s loving call to human beings to pray.
Speakers: Prof You Bin (游斌)
Founding Director, Academy of Religions, Minzu University of China
Chang Jiang Young Scholars, Ministry of Education, China
Professor of Christianity and Biblical Studies, Minzu University of China
Founding Director, Institute of Comparative Scripture and Interreligious Dialogue
Founding Chief Editor, Journal of Comparative Scripture
Discussant: Prof Dr. Andreas Heuser
Dean, Faculty of Theology, University of Basel, Switzerland
Zoom link Topic: February 25, 2022 (Friday)
06:30 pm HK/Beijing;
10.30 am London;
11.30 am Zurich.
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The European Union is a value-based community. However, European societies are undergoing processes of transformations, which in turn affect the justification of their common foundation of values (Felix GEYER). Against the background of these philosophically and ethically significant developments, it will be discussed what churches and theology can contribute to build bridges between secular and religious realities. (Ulrich ENGEL). For this purpose, the Pastoral Constitution of the Second Vatican Council is being referred to in a systematic-theological perspective. From a socio-political perspective, the topic will be illustrated by the example of migrant workers in Europe (Thomas EGGENSPERGER).
Speakers:
Institut M.-Dominique Chenu Berlin (IMDC)
Philosophical Perspective: “Europe’s Values in Transition” – Felix GEYER ISch, Dipl Theol;
Theological Perspective: “Church and World in Dialogue (Gaudium et spes)” – Prof Dr Ulrich ENGEL OP;
Social Perspective: “Problems of Migrant Worker in European Union” – Prof Dr Thomas EGGENSPERGER OP.
Respondent: Fr Dominic White
(Associate Director of Chung Chi Divinity School, Chinese University of HK, Head of Graduate Division of Theology and President of Asia Academy of Practical Theology) Zoom link of MBIT/Yuan Dao Webinar:
Zoom linkTopic: Yuan Dao & MBIT webinar – Dr Sue Price’s talk
Time: January 17, 2022 (Mon), 6pm – 8pm HK (10am-12pm UK)
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Meeting ID: 869 5709 5881
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Bio: Co-Principal and Pastoral Outreach Coordinator Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology. A seasoned Children’s Occupational Therapist, Chaplain in children’s hospice. Steering group member for National Institute of Health Research, Health Services & Delivery Research Project. Research interests include investigating the effect of COVID on children’s faith development.
Content: My PhD investigated what I identified as the silent spirituality of severely disabled children. In this talk I will discuss how spirituality within the UK system is understood and the issues this raised for me in trying to hear the spiritual voices of very severely disabled children who did not use verbal language. I will discuss the findings of my research and the potential impact they could have on practice within the UK Healthcare settings. It will be interesting to discuss the differences between Hong Kong and UK understandings of spirituality after my talk.Date: Thursday, 28 October, 2021
Respondent: Prof Simon Kwan
(Associate Director of Chung Chi Divinity School, Chinese University of HK, Head of Graduate Division of Theology and President of Asia Academy of Practical Theology) Zoom link of MBIT/Yuan Dao Webinar:
Zoom linkTopic: Yuan Dao & MBIT webinar – Dr Sue Price’s talk
Time: Nov 15, 2021 (05:00 PM HK time / 09:00AM UK time)
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Theme of the talk: “Taking an exciting personal journey of discovery through Lonergan’s dynamic four level structure of knowing and acting – and beyond, the talk introduces how Enhanced Self Learning (without the hyphen) is a critical realist tool facilitating learning by the self of itself as both subject and object, requiring insight into insight, heightened awareness of awareness and personal appropriation of one’s own rational self-consciousness so as to know the truth about ourselves in ourselves, integrating learning and acting with the whole of our being – in a wounded but still wonderful world that is mediated by meaning and capable of being transvalued, healed and renewed by faith, hope and love.”
Denis is a renowned Senior Counsel, a Past Chairman of the HK Bar Association and Head of Denis Chang’s Chambers comprising some 54 barristers. He was on the Consultative Committee of the Basic Law and served on Chris Patten’s Executive Council in the run-up to 1997. He has written and spoken on the jurisprudence of “One Country, Two Systems”, the Rule of Law, “Human Rights and the Relational Self”, Lonergan and Critical Realism, Natural Law etc. He is Council Chairman of Caritas Institute of Higher Education, the future St Francis University. For more detailed CV and list of works, see http://dcc.law
Date: Thursday, 28 October, 2021
Time: 5.30 pm – 7. 30 pm (HONG KONG)
[10.30 am – 12.30 pm (UK)]
Venue: Those in Hong Kong are cordially invited to attend personally at Caritas Institute of Higher Education, No.2 Tsui Ling Lane, Tseung Kwan O, New Territories. Covid-19 restrictions apply.
Zoom Venue cum Lecture Theatre at Room A102, Ground Floor
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密碼：168350
Time: Apr 8, 2021 05:30 PM HK / 9:30AM UK
Meeting ID: 827 0126 6347
Passcode: 804823
Rev Dr Ian Coleman is a Deacon in the Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster, and Director of Music at the Church of Holy Redeemer, Chelsea, London. He studied Music and English Literature at Cambridge University and Philosophy at the Jesuit faculty of the Centre Sèvres, Paris.
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Topic: Yuan Dao/MBIT webinar: Zipoli and Ricci – China, Argentina & Jesuit Baroque
Time: Mar 17, 2021 05:00 PM Hong Kong SAR
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Rev Joseph Tham teaches in Rome’s School of Bioethics at Pontifical Regina Apostolorum.
He has been involved in Chinese painting since the age of 12 and has practiced calligraphy and seal carving.
Talk will reflect Chinese art, Christian faith and Spiritual manifestation.
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One of our major initiatives is a series of talks under the theme: “Reliving the traditions in contemporary
world: interreligious and intercultural dialogue”. We are honoured to invite you to to join our first
Webinar (by Zoom) scheduled on October 27, 2020 (Tuesday) from 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm.
Join by Zoom meeting link:
主題：MBIT Yuan Dao Webinar 2020 10 27
時間：2020年10月27日 04:30 下午
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87132537572
會議 ID：871 3253 7572
(No password required)
日期： 2019年7月6日
時間：2:30至4:30
地點：香港浸會大學（浸會大學道15號教學及行政大樓AAB205室）
分享者 （依次序）：
蔡惠民神父 （原道交流學會)
鄺麗娟修女（寶血女修會）
劉賽眉修女（寶血女修會）
朱益宜教授 (香港浸會大學歷史系）
朱益宜著，寶血會修女譯，《國籍寶血女修會與天主教會的演進》香港：原道交流學會、利瑪竇研究中心，2019。
本書獨特之處，從前談及天主教在華歴史，都是着眼於外籍傳教士，尤其是神父和修士，本地女性好像被遺忘了，這亦因為她們的資料實在不多。本書説及一群本地華籍女性，看其怎樣奉獻一生，過着修道的生活，服務人群。
主辦單位：香港原道交流學會 • 香港浸會大學歷史系 • 古道行
19/5: 湯漢樞機致詞
蔡惠民神父致詞（原道交流學會 主席）
從利瑪竇的傳教策略與精神看今日中國教會的使命（講者：靖保路博士）
回應：恩保德神父
26/5: 從利瑪竇的傳教策看本地化（講者：吳智勳神父）
回應：恩保德神父
(由 Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Roma提供)
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#3 Christianity in Chinese Society – Memories, Challenges and Assets
#4 Counting Christians in China: Evidence from CFPS and CGSS
#5 Western Missionaries in China – From Ministers of Foreign Teachings to Agents of Imperialism?
#6 Interaction through Adaptation? On Christianity in Contemporary Chinese Society
#7 On the Positive Role Models and Influences of the Catholic Church in the Modern Society of China
#8 Inculturation of Christianity in the Chinese Society from Past to Present: A Challenging Process
