The International Center for Comparative Theology and Social Issues (CTSI) at the University of Bonn is convinced that the study of this topic is of great value and has therefore organised a conference on ‘Theologies of the Land - Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives’ from 10 to 12 February 2025.
The organisers invited theologians and academics from Jewish, Christian and Muslim backgrounds to talk to each other about the understanding of ‘land’ in their religious traditions. The aim of the conference was to bring the dialogue partners into an ideology-free space of argumentation in order to create a framework for further comparative theological reflections on the topic. The invited speakers come from Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and each of them was asked to present his or her paper and discourse on this topic from the perspective of the religious tradition to which he or she belongs (so that each religious tradition is given the opportunity to formulate its own point of view on this topic in its own words).
Theologies of the Land – Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives Theologies of the Land – Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives
The notion of ‘the Land’, as a religious category, occupies a more or less significant place in all three monotheistic religions, namely, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Even within each of these religious traditions, this notion has been treated in a variety of ways, from merely spiritual and abstract (thus referring to the eschatological, spiritual or primordial realm) to concrete and historically relevant (understood liturgically or politically significant). The conference aimed at bringing those different perspectives on ‘the land’ together so that a comparative theological setting for deepening the subject would be possible. The main questions discussed were: how do Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious scholars understand the notion of ‘the Land”- each from the perspective of his or her own religious tradition? And how does this relate to the other religions?
Links
- https://www.ctsi.uni-bonn.de/en/media/programm_theologies-of-the-land.pdf
- https://www.ctsi.uni-bonn.de/en/news/imoc2025
- https://www.ctsi.uni-bonn.de/en/news/gingko-encounter