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Thierry-Marie Courau

Thierry-Marie Courau, professor and honorary dean of Theologicum – Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences of the Catholic Institute of Paris (2011-2017), president of the International Review of Theology – Concilium, Dominican, engineer, directed the Congress and collected its fruits. He is also the author, at Éditions du Cerf, in Paris, of Le salut comme dialogue. From Saint Paul VI to Francis , 2018; of The succession of exercises towards Buddhist Awakening , 2017; and a short story on the dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity: The Fountains of Awakening , 2016.

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Institut Catholique de Paris - France

Dialogue between diverse cultural and religious ways of thinking (Closed)

e are always East or West of another culture. What happens when cultures meet? What happens when a Chinese person encounters a European line of thought or speech, the structures of which have been built and developed over centuries? Similarly, what happens when a Western individual encounters a Chinese idea, born out of a Chinese culture that has also been built and developed over centuries? Is it enough to know the language?

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