The Concept of History and the Concept of Time
The Concept of History and The Concept of Time in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
On December 12th-14th the Chair of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg conducted the conference “The Concept of History, and the Concept of Time, in Judaism, Christianity and Islam”.
Program and Speakers
1)The Concept of History in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
1.1 The Concept of History in Judaism
Prof. Dr. em. Karl E. Grözinger
Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
University of Potsdam
1.2 The Concept of History in Christianity
Prof. Dr. Christoph Böttigheimer
Professor of Fundamental Theology
Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
1.3 The Concept of History in Islam
Prof. Dr. Mona Hassan
Associate Professor of Islamic Studies & History and International Comparative Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Duke University
2) The Concept of Time in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
2.1 The Concept of Time in Judaism
Sylvie Anne Goldberg
Head of the Jewish Studies
Centre de Recherches Historiques (CRH)
École des hautes études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Paris
2.2 The Concept of Time in Christianity
Prof. Alan G. Padgett
Professor of Systematic Theology
Luther Seminary (St. Paul, Minnesota)
2.3 The Concept of Time in Islam
Assoc. Professor Sajjad Rizvi
Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History and Islamic Studies
University of Exeter
3)Ceremonial Act
In a Ceremonial Act we celebrated the new cooperation between the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Sheikh Nahyan Center of the University of Balamand (Lebanon). Prof. Dr. Stefan Schreiner gave a lecture about the importance of interreligious dialogue in German language