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PolyphonicThinking about the Divine
A Symposium in Honour of Dr. Maurice Boutin(McConnell Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion, McGill University)
About Maurice Boutin
Since 1991, Maurice Boutin has been John W. McConnell Professor of
Philosophy of Religion at McGill University. Dr. Boutin taught Philosophical Theology at the University of Montreal from 1972 on. He received a State Ph.D. from the University of Munich, Germany, with a dissertation published in 1974 in the series Beiträge zur evangelischen Theologie with the title Relationalität als Verstehensprinzip bei Rudolf Bultmann (Munich: Chr. Kaiser
Verlag – Relationality as Understanding Principle in R. Bultmann’s Thought). Since 1975, he has been a member of the International Colloquiums on Hermeneutics (Rome, Italy) founded by Enrico Castelli. From 1981 to 1987, he has been President of the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion. Dr. Boutin has published articles in German, French, Swiss, American, and
Canadian journals and chapters in books in Germany, Italy, France, Canada, and the US. Since June 1st 2010, he is John W. McConnell Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion, McGill University.
Sponsored by:THE FACULTY OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES
CREORMcGILL CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON RELIGION
CENTRE DE RECHERCHE SUR LA RELIGION
Philosophy of religion, once a monolithic and seemingly rigid discipline of analyzing topics such as God’s existence, the problem of evil, religious language and experience, has become far more diversi!ed in character and in scope. Polyphonic is the catchall of this form of thinking, which may be more accurately described in terms of ‘polygraphic’ in deference to Derrida and the tradition critical of ontotheology.
Continental re"ection is tropical in nature, interrupting the tendency to straightjacket thought by the otherwise excellent heritage of the Enlightenment. The desire to siphon insight into manageable packets of information, propositions, is subverted in the name of historicality and !nitude. A polyphonic, then, is variegated; it is, discontinuous, too, in the sense not of being simply erratic but of marking a break with a tradition that desires diachrony, continuity, and uni!cation.
November 12 5:00 p.m.November 13 9:00 a.m.
12 November 5:00 p.m.
Gabriel Vahanian Professor Emeritus, Université de Strasbourg and Syracuse University
Hard to Soft:The Fallacy of Identity Pegged on Shifting Grounds fromReligious to Would-Be Neutered Cultural Obscurantism
13 November 9:00–10:30 a.m.Joseph C. McLelland
McConnell Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion, McGill UniversityDivine Impotence
Michelle RebidouxMemorial University
A Sense of the Other: Intelligibility and Carnality in Levinas’ Ethics
James Mark ShieldsBucknell UniversityZange and Sorge:
Models of ‘Concern’ in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
13 November 10:45–12:15Scott A. Halse
Centennial CollegeMethod and Interpretation in the Study of Religion:
The Case of Bernard Lonergan
Arvind SharmaBirk’s Professor of Comparative Religion, McGill University
Can We Continue to Use the Word `Religion' with Impunity?
Jim KanarisMcGill University
Enekstasis: A Disposition for our Times?
13 November 1:30–3:00
Richard R. WalkerWilfred Laurier University
The Owl of Minerva in Chains:Critical Thinking in Post-Secondary Education
David KoloszycMcGill University
On Relations without Relations: Religion and the Labor of Meaning
Nathan LoewenVanier College
Doing Philosophy of Religion as Glocal Losers
13 November 3:15–5:30Douglas John Hall
Professor Emeritus of Christian TheologyReligion and Faith in Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Tillich
Herb GruningCanisius College
Religion and Science: Thinking Divine Action
Christian Saint-GermainUniversité du Québec à Montréal
Devoir la vie: survivre à son père?
Sylvain DestrempesInstitut de Formation Théologique de Montréal
Deictics and the Relation to God
WINE RECEPTION 5:30 p.m.
Polyphonic Thinking about the Divine