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In March 2006 a conference in Heidelberg marked the beginning of a long-term research cooperation between Chinese and German scholars. Joint meetings will further establish and maintain contacts to Chinese universities, academic institutions and individual scholars. Within this exchange the enormous potential of China's emerging interest in religion, religious studies, and theology has already become visible. At the same time the cooperation offers the opportunity to support Chinese research in religious studies and theology in a critical and contructive manner. The dialog between China and the West has benefited in particular from a common exchange on key concepts shared by Confucianism and Christianity, such as Law and Love, Mind/Spirit and Nature. Refining this approach, it has been the particular interestof FIIT not to isolate the discourses in the humanities from the one in the natural sciences, but to arrange constructive interaction between the two areas. Thus FIIT has organized a conference with European, American, and Chinese theologians, philosophers and researchers in the natural sciences in order to discuss the topic "Law and Love in China and the West".
At their first conference in March 2006 - "Philosophy, Theories of Religion, Christian Studies and Theology: A German-Chinese Colloquium" - the founding members of FIIT were joined by15 Chinese scholars of religious studies and philosophy from renowned universities. To explore common areas of interest, a wide range of subjects was discussed: the history of philosophical and religious theory, scriptural traditions and hermeneutics, sociological perspectives, and religious dialogue: China and the West. See the agenda of the conference In October 2007 the subject of the Chinese-German conference was "Law and Love: Philosophy, Religious Studies and Sciences in China and the West." The meeting focused on two concepts that are very prominent Mboth in Confucianism and in the Jewish-Christian tradition. Thus the subject served as a bridge that enabled researchers to engage in dialogue while their home contexts are characterized by very different cultural and religious factors. See the agenda of the meeting In summer 2008 the circle of participants was widened to include researchers from the natural sciences, so that the subject "law and love" was discussed from an even more strongly interdisciplinary perspective. Chinese and German thinkers were joined by scholars from the USA and Great Britain, adding subjects like physics, biology, and psychology/neurology to those subjects previously represented (theology, philosohy, religious studies). See the agenda of the meeting Moreover, in 2007 researchers from Taiwan accepted an invitation by scholars from the FIIT to engage in an interdisciplinary dialogue that encompassed philosophy, theology, and religious studies. The thinkers not only discussed different perspectives on Biblical and other religious traditions, but in particular they focused on the encounter of different cultures and traditions of thought. See the agenda of the meeting Philosophy and Sociology of Religion, Religious and Christian Studies International and Interdisciplinary Symposium 2nd – 5th March 2006, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg I. History of Philosophical and Religious Theory Political Ethics, Moral Education and Christian Public Theology
Kang Phee Seng: Should Religious Discourses be Allowed in Public forum?
He Guanghu: An Approach to the Inter-Religious Dialogue
Ingrid Schoberth: Disclosure Situations in Religious Education
Yang Hengda: Nietzsche and Postmodernity
Anreas Kruse: Nietzsche’s Deep Ambivalence against Christian Theology
Wang Liu’er: The Fate of Science in China
Michael Welker: Science and the Modern World (Whitehead) II. Scriptural Traditions, and Hermeneutics Liang Gong: Reflection and Prospects of the Biblical Narrative Criticism
Manfred Oeming: Narrative Criticism as a Necessary Supplement to the Historical Critical Method – Some Remarks on the Contemporary German Biblical Scholarship
Wang Xioachao: The Relationship between Religion and Moral Ethics
Gerd Theißen: Biblical and Greek Morality in the Light of Modern Scepticism
Gao Shining: Christianity and Christians in Today’s China: from a Perspective of Experimental Study
Monika Gänßbauer: Reception of and Research on Christianity in China – A Workshop Report from Germany
Li Pingye : A Comparative Study and Reflection on Participation of Religious Groups in Social Activites in Mainland China and Hong Kong
Wilfried Härle: Positional Pluralism as a Model for Religious Tolerance
Wang Aiming: Theological Understanding of the Growing Church in China
Gotthard Oblau: The Threefold Reception of Christianity in Contemporary China – A Theological Reflection by an Overseas Observer
Zhang Qingxiong: Social Institutions, Concepts of Value and Transcendent Spirit – An Essay on Possibility and Method of Exchange of Concepts of Value
Heinz Schmidt: Social Institutions and Concepts of Value IV. Religious Dialogue: China and the West Michael Bergunder: Liang Suming and Orientalism
Yu Carver: The Relevance of Neo-Confucianism to the Modern World: A Christian Reflection
Theo Sundermeier: Chinese and Western Cultures: Only Together We Can Develop Relevant Theology
Li Qiuling: Die Christliche Religion im Rahmen der Religionswissenschaft und Religionsphilosophie der Volksrepublik China
Lo Pilgrim W. K.: From “Justification by Faith” to “Justification by Love”? – A Reflection on Theological Reconstruction in the Chinese Church
Wilfrid Härle: Justification by Faith – not by Love
Zhao Dunhua:The Ghost of Primitive Monotheism
Christoph Schwöbel: The One and the Many: A Question for Trans-cultural Hermeneutics?
Zhuo Xinping: Religious Dialogue between China and the West: The Chinese Understanding of Contemporary Christian Theology
Michael Welker: Structured Pluralism in the Religious Dialogue between China and the West Law and Love: Philosophy, Religious Studies and Sciences in China and the West International and Interdisciplinary Symposium
18th – 22nd October 2007, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg HAN Buxin, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Filial Piety in the Ten Commandments and Hsiao Ching: a community based investigation
HE Guanghu, Renmin University of China, Beijing, A Modern Review and Criticism of Confucian Studies of Law and Love, in Comparison with Christian Ideas, from Perspective of Chinese Society in the Globalization Age
Theo SUNDERMEIER, Heidelberg University, Korean Minjung-Theology: Renunciation of Confucianism
ZHANG Zhigang, Peking University, Beijing, Law and Love from the Perspective of the Confucian Understanding of Religion, based on the Interpretation of the Text of Analects of Confucius
Manfred OEMING, Heidelberg University: The Law of Love in the Ethics of Ancient Israel’s Wisdom Literature
SHANG Xinjian, Peking University, Beijing, Love and Li in Ancient Confucianism
WANG Xiaochao, Tsinghua University, Beijing,The Chinese Solution of the Euthyphro Problem
Peter LAMPE, Heidelberg University, Law and Love in Matthew’s Theology
ZHUO Xinping, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing: Theology of Love in Contemporary China
Friederike NÜSSEL, Heidelberg University: Law and Love in Lutheran Confessions
Michael WELKER, Heidelberg University: Law and Love in Paul and John Law and Love: Philosophy, Religious Studies and Sciences in China and the West An International and Interdisciplinary Colloquium 10 – 13 July 2008 SHANG Xinjian, Peking University, Beijing: “Li” in the Ancient Confucianism
ZHANG Zhigang, Peking University, Beijing: Law and Love from the Perspective of the Confucian Understanding of Religion, based on the Interpretation of the Text of Analects of Confucius
BAO Limin, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou: Happiness and Justice: A Reflection on Love and Law in Political Science
WANG Xiaochao, Tsinghua University, Beijing: The Chinese Solution of the Euthyphro Problem
Nancey MURPHY, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena: When Jesus Said ‘Love Your Enemies’, I Think He Probably Meant Don't Kill Them
Michael WELKER, Heidelberg University: Law and Love in Paul and John: Some Impulses for the Conversation with Chinese Traditions and with Observations from the Sciences
KANG Phee Seng, Hong Kong Baptist University: Law and Love in the Christian Understanding of Justification
ZHUO Xinping, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing: Theology of Love in Contemporary China
Warren S. BROWN, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena: A Science of Love: Behavioral and Neuroscience Study of the Virtue of Compassion
John POLKINGHORNE, Cambridge University: The Incompleteness of Science
Simon CONWAY-MORRIS, Cambridge University: Is Evolution Consistent with Theism, even Christianity?
Malcolm JEEVES, University of St. Andrews, St Andrews: Law and Love - Embodied and Embedded
Edwin HUI, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong: Genetic Engineering and Human Nature
Jeff SCHLOSS, Westmont College, Santa Barbara: The Law of Love and the Laws of Nature A German-Taiwanese Consultation on Theology and Christian Studies An International and Interdisciplinary Colloquium (FIIT)
1st – 5th November 2007, IWH Heidelberg I. Scriptural Studies, Hermeneutics and Theological Discourses
TSAN Tsong-Sheng, Taiwan Theological Seminary, Taipei:The "Vulnerability" of God in the Old Testament: Judges 10:10-16 in the Context of the Book of Judges
Peter LAMPE, Heidelberg University: Theologia Crucis as the Center of Pauline Theology
TRAN Van Doan, National Taiwan University, Taipei: Harmony as the Category of Asian Theology
Manfred OEMING, Heidelberg University: Old Testament Exegesis and Existential Philosophy
Jing-Jong LUH, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung Li: Hermeneutic Philosophising – its Occurrence in the Taiwanese Cultural World and its Potential in the Intercultural Philosophy of Religion
Heinz Schmidt, Heidelberg University: Theology as Social Ethics in the Context of Social Development. The Concept of Social Responsibility of Heinz-Dietrich Wendland II. Christian History and Theology in the Contexts SHIH Shu-Ying, Taiwan Theological Seminary, Taipei: Karl Barths Debate with Calvin and Luther in his Teaching on Predestination
Wilfried HÄRLE, Heidelberg University: The Theology of Karl Barth with Reference to his Teaching on Predestination
Yang-En CHENG, Taiwan Theological Seminary, Taipei: Charismatic Movements in Taiwan
Michael BERGUNDER, Heidelberg University: Pentecostalism as a Global Movement
HUANG Po-Ho, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan: Contextual Theologies in Taiwan: Towards a Methodological Appraisal
Theo SUNDERMEIER, Heidelberg University: Spiritism, a Legitimate Model of Inculturation
CHEN Chi-Rong, Aletheia University, Taipei The Early Christian Encounter with Taiwan Religious Culture
Friederike NÜSSEL, Heidelberg University: German Enlightenment and its Impact on the Transformation of Church Dogmatics
CHEN Nan-Jou, Yushan Theological Seminary, Hualien: Theology and Culture: A Taiwanese Perspective
Verena GRÜTER, Evangelisches Missionswerk Deutschland, Hamburg: Freedom of Religion as Human Right. Theological Comments on a Current Debate in Germany
CHIN Kenpa, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chun Li The Paradigm Shift: From Chinese Theology to Sino Theology
Michael WELKER, Heidelberg University: Social, Cultural and Ecumenical Pluralism
Hong-Hsin LIN, Taiwan Theological Seminary, Taipei: The Significance of the German Enlightenment for Taiwan. A Theological Perspective |
