19 Jun Professor Philip Clayton Pays Visit to DICID
Dr. Philip Clayton is an international leader in the dialogue between science and the world’s religions, a scholar on the future of faith, and an activist in emergent Christianity. He has been teaching Claremont’s Christian theology courses. Clayton has also been instrumental in the planning process for Claremont Lincoln University and serves as its provost.
The Claremont University is a multi-religious institution founded by Claremont School of Theology [CST], The Academy for Jewish Religion – California [AJRCA] and the Islamic Center of Southern California – Bayan College. The concept of this university project is to enable the religions of the world to work, study, problem-solve, and strategize together. Claremont Lincoln aims to be the leading setting for action in the United States, a place where leaders and students work in harmony to solve the major global concerns – peace, health, sustainability, education, economic systems where “good ethics is good business,” and more.
The first and most urgent step toward a fully functioning and accredited degree program for Bayan College as a partner in Claremont Lincoln University is to invite a nationally or internationally known Muslim scholar to represent and teach Islam in this multi-religious graduate school as the Founding Chair of Islamic Law. To discuss the proposal for this chair was the purpose of Dr. Clayton’s recent visit to DICID.
Philp Clayton sought advice on how to better engage American Muslims into the Claremont project and he sought partnership in the near future on a conference in America on practical projects of interfaith partnership.
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