The Life and Thought of Louis Massignon (1883-1962): Comparative political and theological perspectives
A one-day Conference in honour of the 50th anniversary of the death of Louis Massignon on the eve of the Second Vatican Council
27 November 2012, Centre for Eastern Christianity, Marie Eugenie Room, Heythrop College, Kensington Square, London W8 5HN, 10.00am-6.00pm (Registration from 9.15pm)
Attendance charge £20 – to be paid on the day. Lunch is not included – but the College cafeteria will be open for meals and snacks.
Louis Massignon, a Greek Catholic Melkite priest who dedicated much of his life to making known the importance of the living presence of Christianity in the Middle East, was an extremely influential French Catholic thinker on Islam and Christian-Muslim relations. Massignon’s religious thought had a significant influence on the documents of the Second Vatican Council; on the political theology in the encounter between Judaism, Christianity and Islam; and the modern ‘dialogue of civilizations’.
For further information, please contact j.flannery@heythrop.ac.uk