TST 40th Anniversary Conference: Ecumenism and the Challenge of Pluralism
Ecumenism and the Challenge of Pluralism: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
On May 7-8, 2010, North America’s largest ecumenical consortium of theological colleges will be hosting a conference celebrating 40 years of preparing people for ministry and academic theology around the world. The general theme of this conference is to reflect on the ecumenical mission of the Toronto School of Theology and its calling to train and equip men and women in Christian leadership within a world of countless and often competing claims. The Christian faith itself is also comprised of numerous and dissonant communities, each claiming to be participants in the one Church.
A keynote address will be delivered by Dr. John McGuckin, the Ane Marie and Bent Emil Nielsen Professor in Late Antique and Byzantine Christian History at Union Theological Seminary, New York. He is a Stavrophore priest of the Orthodox Church (Patriarchate of Romania) and has authored numerous books, including:St. Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography (2000; nominated for the 2002 Pollock Biography Prize).