RO uD) U, Dd and nurtured by religious faith. Nonetheless, this unique incursion into the hermeneutics, Of hospitality is further complemented and contextualized by BTI's long-time Executive >, Director, Rev. Dr. Rodney Petersen, who reminds us that true hospitality is‘defined in the Yy doing.” and implemented in organic solidarity with a multicultural and multi-religious YY society. Perhaps one of the most versatile heuristic devices that helps explain the meaning of ; hospitality in a BT contexts the analogy between this consortium and a lower that This issue of the B7I Magazine focuses on the theme of hospitality; a theme selected by the Trustees of the Boston Theological Institute not only as a motto for the current academic year, but more so in recognition of the pivotal initiative upon which the BT! was established forty-five years ago. The hermeneutics of hospitality is perhaps as old as humanity itself. In his keynote address presented at the BTI Annual Dinner, His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of ‘America offered a unique perspective on the western evolution of hospitality, as informed flower of a unique breed, which makes Boston an irreplaceable environment for theological learning, With each book and article listed in the BT! Magazine, and the profundity with which books are reviewed in it - be it at the conflation between structured theology and artistic imagination or whenever engaging our neighbor's faith = everyone's contribution is what makes this lower unique. by Marian Gh. Simion, PhD. Assistant Director Hanno pouoyya: Interreligious and Interfaith Studies The American Academy of Religion announces a new group, “Inter- religious and Interfaith Studies," to be led by co-chairs Jennifer Peace, NX Assistant Professor of Interfaith Studies, Andover Newton Theological School; and Homayra Ziad, Assistant Professor of Islam, Trinity College. The purpose of the group is to create a space for critical interdisciplinary engagement with inter- faith and interreligious studies and the many responses to the reality of religi pluralism (theological, philosophical, historical, scriptural, ethical and proxological, institutional.) Initial intentions include giving attention to common terminology (interfaith, interreligious, engaged pluralism, multifaith, multireligious) and the intersection of these terms with the disciplines that are increasingly using this language (interfaith just peacemaking; comparative theology; scriptural reasoning.) The BTI heavy steering committee includes Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, and Fredric Wertham, Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Member of the Faculty of Divinity, Harvard University; John Makransky, Associate Professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology, Boston College; and Rabbi Or Rose, Director, Center for Global Judaism, Hebrew College. Additional members include Paul Knitter, Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions and Culture, Union Theological Seminary; and Ravi M. Gupta, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, The College of William and Mary. Jennifer Peace is co-director with Or Rose of the Center for Inter-Religious and Communal Leadership Education (CIRCLE), Andover Newton Theological Schoo! and Hebrew College. For further information contact Jennifer Peace at jpeace@ants.edu.