FAITHS TOGETHER - meeting points

Heythrop College will launch a series of short films in September, as a further extension of the programme of study called Faiths Together, which was sponsored by the Jesuit college, based in Kensington, West London.

An experiment in inter-religious learning, Faiths Together brought together some 20 participants from different religious and cultural backgrounds who met with outside speakers, visited people of faith in their homes and in their places of worship, and most importantly spent time listening and learning.  These short fims record their experience and invite the viewer to reflect with them on the questions and challenges which the course offered.

More specifically, they explore three meeting points -
sacred places, sacred texts and sacred actions - where
important themes, practices, and symbols provide the common ground where people can encounter each other as fellow human beings and persons of faith.  A further short film provides some background information on the Faiths Together experience and acts as a sort of commentary on the process.

As the introductory film explains, the heart of the
experience was a movement from learning about other faiths, to learning from other faiths, to learning with other faiths.

The films are intended mainly for inter faith groups and people whose professional work brings them up against issues which are connected with faith, religion and culture in today's world.  They will be available to download free from the Heythrop College website after their launch in mid-September.  In addition to the four films, the website will also provide access to a study guide providing further background and suggesting ways in which the films can be used.  Another document will contain the questions from the study guide which can be downloaded separately and duplicated for groups.

The three Meeting Points films form part of the new
Certificate and Diploma courses at Heythrop in
Interreligious Relations beginning in January 2010.  Heythrop College, the specialist Philosophy and Theology College of the University of London, includes the Centre for Christianity and Interreligious Dialogue (link below).


 Heythrop College

 Centre for Christianity and Interreligious Dialogue