2011 Speakers
David Grafton |
“’The Death of Christ on a Cross’: David D. Grafton is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations and the Director for Graduate Studies of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. Prior to his appointment at LTSP he served as the Coordinator of Graduate Studies at the Evangelical (Presbyterian) Theological Seminary in Cairo, Director of the Center for Middle East Christianity at the ETSC, and adjunct lecturer in Islamic studies at the Dar Comboni Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Cairo, Egypt. He has a PhD in Islamic Studies from the Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, University of Birmingham, England.
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Gwynne Guibord |
“Standing Together: A Grassroots Model of Christian – Muslim Dialogue and Study” The Reverend Dr. Gwynne Guibord, Founder and President of “The Guibord Center – Religion Inside Out,” has created this center as the culmination of nearly two decades of working shoulder-to-shoulder with leaders of many faith practices and traditions to explore and uphold the experience and presence of the Holy that transforms the world. Most recently, from 2003 through 2009, she served Bishop J. Jon Bruno, as The Officer of Ecumenical and Interreligious Concerns for The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.She has served as president of the following boards: The Interreligious Council of Southern California, The California Council of Churches; The National Board of The Interfaith Alliance; and Progressive Christians Uniting. |
Yvonne Haddad |
“Anglican Approaches to Christian-Muslim Dialogue: A reassessment” Yvonne Haddad, Ph.D., is Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Professor Haddad’s fields of expertise include twentieth-century Islam; intellectual, social and political history in the Arab world; and Islam in North America and the West. Currently, Professor Haddad is conducting research on Muslims in the West and on Islamic Revolutionary Movements. She also teaches courses on Muslim-Christian Relations and Arab Intellectuals. |
Mark N. Swanson |
“What Dialogue? In Search of Arabic-language Christian-Muslim conversation in the early Islamic centuries” Mark Swanson, an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is the Harold S. Vogelaar Professor of Christian-Muslim Studies and Interfaith Relations at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Earlier he taught several courses at Luther Seminary, which included: Islamic studies, Christian-Muslim relations, Arabic language and early church history. Before that he served for 14 years on the faculty of the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, Egypt. His research interests include the history of Christian-Muslim relations, medieval Egyptian church history, and early Arabic Christian literature. |