Raids on the Ineffable Or Pointing to the Moon in the World Religions

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Professor M. Darrol Bryant is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Director of the Centre for Dialogue and Spirituality in the World Religions at Renison University College/U. Waterloo. He was educated at Concordia College (Philosophy & Political Science), Harvard Divinity School (Theology) and St. Michael’s University College in the University of Toronto (Religious Studies). He has taught at Renison University College from 1973-2007. He is the author/editor of more than 25 volumes in the study of religion including: Religion in a New Key, Woven on the Loom of Time, Many Faiths and One Divine Purpose, God the Contemporary Discussion, Muslim Christian Dialogue: Promise and Problems, The Coming Kingdom, Mahayana Buddhism: History and Culture. His work has been centered on the dialogue of religions. He has travelled widely including 20 times to India, throughout Latin America, Europe, Turkey (6 times) and the Far East (Korea & Japan). He has been a visiting scholar at Hamdard University, the University of Madras, Nairobi University, Cambridge University and lectured in Europe, Japan, Korea, Israel, and Peru. He is married to Susan Hodges and they have four children. See www.travelingguru.org

Professor Bryant's presentation is entitled Raids on the Ineffable Or Pointing to the Moon in the World Religions. This presentation will draw upon his experience of the living pathways of spirituality in humankind over the past half-century. It will explore the tension between the universal and particular in the quest for the ultimate. It regards all the world faiths as our common heritage. It seeks to point to that timeless wisdom that always exceeds our grasp but ever illumines the journey of life.