30.06.2016
Making God–Sense of 1912–1922 a Century Later – Dublin Council of Churches Public Lecture
Dublin Council of Churches continues its aim to provide ecumenical perspectives on the centenary commemorations with a public lecture and conversation in the Lutherhaus, 24 Adelaide Road, Dublin 2, on Tuesday July 12 at 8.00 pm.
Dr Johnston McMaster of the Ethical and Shared Remembering Project @ The Junction, Derry; Irish School of Ecumenics, Belfast Campus; and author of Overcoming Violence, 2012, and Co–author of Ethics and the Easter Rising – Remembering 1916, 2015 will be the main speaker with a response by Patsy McGarry, Religious and Social Affairs Correspondent with The Irish Times.
Dr McMaster will speak on the topic: ‘Making God–Sense of 1912–1922 a Century Later – Faith in a Different World’. The presentation will explore the place of churches in Ireland a century ago and the impact of the Great War that is believed to have killed Christendom. The effect of this on Irish churches will be analysed, especially over the last fifty years.
The religious beliefs that underpinned the events of Ireland’s crucial decade, 1912–1922, will be critically examined through a theological and an ethical lens and the question will be asked whether the theology of a century ago is any longer believable: Can we make God–Sense of 1912–1922 a century later?
All are welcome.