PHILOSOPHIZING MONOTHEISM: A Workshop in Philosophy and Theology

PHILOSOPHIZING MONOTHEISM - 10th May 2017

SPEAKERS

Itzhak Benyamini

Ward Blanton

Joseph Cohen

Aubrey Glazer

Maureen Junker-Kenny

Elad Lapidot

Mahdi Tourage

Raphael Zagury-Orly

Coordinated by Itzhak Benyamini and Joseph Cohen

PROGRAMME

10h

OPENING GREETINGS

Dermot Moran, University College Dublin, Ireland

Itzhak Benyamini, University of Haifa, Israel

Joseph Cohen, University College Dublin, Ireland

10h15 – 11h

Three Modalities of Philosophizing Monotheism: Sacrifice, Election, Justice

Joseph Cohen, University College Dublin, Ireland

Raphael Zagury-Orly, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel

11h – 11h45

Monotheism and Conversion.

On the Possibility and Necessity of Becoming Other

Elad Lapidot, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany

11h45 – 12h30

Cosmotheism or Ethical Monotheism?

Jan Assmann’s thesis on the link between monotheism and violence in exegetical and theological debate

Maureen Junker-Kenny, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

12h30 – 14h   Lunch Break

14h – 14h45

Religion of the One, Religion of the Aqedah

Itzhak Benyamini, University of Haifa, Israel

14h45 – 15h30

The Monotheism of Islam, Deferral of Certainties and Different Universalities

Mahdi Tourage, University of Western Ontario, Canada

15h30 – 15h45   Break

15h45 – 16h30

Doubts & Loves Sprout Justice In-Formation

Rabbi Aubrey Glazer, Beth Sholom Congregation, San Francisco, United States

16h30 – 17h15

On the Divinity of the Automatic Gesture from Euthyphro to Derrida and Deleuze

Ward Blanton, University of Kent, United Kingdom

17h15 – 18h

CLOSING DISCUSSION