Rev. Dr. Stanley Samartha Memorial
Lecture - 2010
The 9th Rev. Dr. Stanley Samartha Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Sir Mark Tully on 7 October 2010 at 4.30 p.m. at the Rotary House of Friendship, Lavelle Road, Bangalore.
This programme is sponsored by
HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION (HAF).
The Bangalore Initiative for Religious Dialogue (BIRD) is a low-key organisation of theologically and socially interested people, which has attempted to be a forum for people of different religions to talk things over in times of strife and peace over the last decade.
The BIRD has an annual lecture series named after its inspiration, the late Dr Stanley Samartha, an ordained priest of Church of South India and theology teacher from Karnataka (born in Karkala), who lived his Christian faith and practice in harmony with his Hindu tradition and culture during his ministry.
The 9th Rev. Dr. Stanley Samartha Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Sir Mark Tully on 7 October 2010 at 4.30 p.m. at the Rotary House of Friendship, Lavelle Road, Bangalore. He will speak on "How Certain Should We Be, the Problem of Religious Pluralism". Please mark your calendar and participate in the event if your schedule permits.
Last year Arun Shourie delivered the lecture on "Rethinking Religions". In years before that, we have had M.J.Akbar, Justice K.T.Thomas, Metropolitan Philipose Mar Chrysotom of Mar Thoma Church, Dr. Hans Ucko of World Council of Churches, Dr. M.V. Nadkarni, Dr. C.T.Kurien and Francois Gautier.
Dr. Stanley Samartha, known as the "Christian prophet of religious pluralism", had famously declared himself as "a Hindu by culture, Christian by faith, Indian by citizenship and ecumenical by choice". He was the first director of the Inter-Faith Dialogue Program of the World Council of Churches in Geneva (1970-81). Earlier he was the Principal of the Karnataka Theological College, Mangalore and also the Serampore College, West Bengal. He was a professor at the United Theological College, Bangalore in 1960s. This year’s lecture on 7 October coincides with the 90th birth anniversary of Dr. Samartha.
