The Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies (ICJS) is a non-profit organization that concentrates its educational expertise on the dual tasks of disarming religious hatred and establishing models of interfaith understanding. Founded in 1987 by an interfaith coalition of laity and clergy, the ICJS offers a variety of educational programs that highlight the distinctiveness of the Jewish and Christian traditions and confront the dangerous misunderstandings that have evolved in our two communities.

ICJS Timely Talk

Mormonism and Other Faiths

With Dr. Terryl L. Givens
Response by Seth Perry
Thursday, June 14, 2012 • 7:30 p.m.
Woodbrook Baptist Church
25 Stevenson Lane
Baltimore, MD 21212

This event is FREE and open to the public.
Please RSVP to 410-494-7161 or mkrastel@icjs.org.

From its founding in 1830, Mormonism has had an often rocky relationship with the American public and especially with members of other religious groups. Terryl Givens will explore the historical and theological roots of those conflicts. He will also consider ways of improving relations with people from other faith traditions.

Dr. Givens teaches courses in Romanticism, nineteenth-century cultural studies, and the Bible and Literature. He studies literary theory, Romanticism, Mormonism, and intellectual history. He is the author of several books, including The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy; By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion; People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture; and The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction. He earned his B.A. from Brigham Young University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Seth Perry is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Divinity School and a Mellon Fellow in Early American Literature and Material Texts at the University of Pennsylvania's McNeil Center for Early American Studies. His dissertation explores the creation of religious authority in early-national America, focusing on the form and content of American printed bibles and the practices of reading and usage they inspired. His work has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Journal of Religion, and the Journal of Ecclesiastical History.

In the Community

Law and Ethics in Biblical, Talmudic, and Later Rabbinic Tradition: Tensions and Opportunities

Goucher College presents Rabbi Eugene Korn

Rabbi Eugene Korn, the American director of the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation in Israel, will give the seventh annual Myra Berman Kurtz '66 Seminar presentation at Goucher College on Monday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Batza Room of the Athenaeum.

His seminar, titled "Law and Ethics in Biblical, Talmudic, and Later Rabbinic Tradition: Tensions and Opportunities," will examine the relationship of Jewish law (halakhah) and ethics in Jewish thought, as well as outline some ethical challenges that contemporary culture poses to Jewish law and tradition.

This event is free and open to the public, but tickets must be reserved in advance at www.goucher.edu/tickets or by calling 410-337-6333.

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