Interfaith Discussions

When:
September 14, 2021 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
2021-09-14T19:30:00+01:00
2021-09-14T20:30:00+01:00
Where:
Online
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Oxford Interfaith Forum, Thea Gomelauri

Oxford Interfaith Discussion on the topic of The Creation Story.

The contributors of the discussion include:

Lord Alderdice, Patron of Oxford Interfaith Forum and Chair of Advisory Board, Freedom of Religion or Belief Leadership Network.

Revd Nevsky Everett, Chaplain of Keble College, the University of Oxford.

Revd Dr John Goldingay (DD, Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth), the David Allan Hubbard Professor Emeritus of Old Testament in the School of Theology of Fuller Theological Seminary in California, but lives in Oxford, England. He was previously principal and professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at St. John’s Theological College in Nottingham, England. His books include An Introduction to the Old Testament, A Reader’s Guide to the Bible, Reading Jesus’s Bible, and commentaries on Psalms, Isaiah, and Daniel. He has also authored a Biblical Theology, the three-volume Old Testament Theology and the seventeen-volume Old Testament for Everyone series, and has published a translation of the entire Old Testament called The First Testament: A New Translation.

Ustadah Yomna Helmy, Teaching Associate at The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge. She taught and developed a range of courses including, Tafseer, Hadith, Islamic law, Salafism, Arabic Syntax, Morphology, Quranic Arabic, and Spoken Arabic. Yomna is interested in Social Islamic thoughts and ethics within the fields of Hadith and Quranic Studies.

Rabbi David Wolpe, the Max Webb Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, California. He was named the most influential rabbi in America by Newsweek Magazine and one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world by the Jerusalem Post. He previously taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Hunter College, and UCLA.