Responding to Crisis

Source: Center For Christian-Jewish Learning

Center For Christian-Jewish Learning presents the 2025 Corcoran Chair Conference

Reparative Reasoning in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

How do Abrahamic traditions respond to societal and religious crises?

Conference sessions will examine such issues as climate change, sexual abuse, and dangerous technologies.

Participants will raise such questions as:

• What religious groups lead efforts to address such crises?
• What assumptions and beliefs guide them?
• What skills and methods do they bring to this work? And what processes of investigation, reasoning, reflection, and testing can assess this work?

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2025 Corcoran Chair Conference: "Responding to Crisis: Reparative Reasoning in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam" April 6, 2025

Conference Program:

Session 1: The Crisis of Techne Beyond the Limits of Human Control and Human Knowing

Chair: Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski (Boston College)

Laurie Zoloth (The University of Chicago) The Crisis of Techne and the End of the World

Lisa Sowle Cahill (Boston College) Crises, Contexts, and Convictions: Getting from Impasse to Hope

Peter Ochs (Boston College / University of Virginia) Response: Finite and Non-finite Problems, Finite and Non-finite Reasonings

Chapters

• 0:00 Start
• 12:26 Laurie Zoloth
• 38:10 Lisa Sowle Cahill
• 1:12:15 Peter Ochs
• 1:25:15 Discussion