2015年6月26日星期五

Ultimate Concern: Paul Tillich, Buddhism, Confucianism Conference


1.      Duane OLSON, McKendree University
Tillich’s Two Methods in Context: Some Implications for Interreligious Understanding”
2.      LAI Pan Chiu, CUHK
Tillich’s Concept of Ultimate Concern and Buddhist-Christian Dialogue”  
3.      Francis YIP Ching Wah, CUHK
Another Religious Vindication of Democracy from a Christian Perspective? The Relevance of Paul Tillich to Our Situation.?”       
4.      Brandon LOVE, HKBU
Paul Tillich: Concerning Lessing’s Broad and Ugly Ditch”  
5.      WANG Tao, Hong Kong Holy Spirit Seminary
A Comparative Study of St. Thomas Aquinas’s and Paul Tillich’s Ideas of Love: In the Perspective of Agape-Eros and Philia”    
6.      Russell Re MANNING, Bath Spa University
Paul Tillich: East and West” 
7.      Stephen PALMQUIST, HKBU
Does Tillich Have a Hidden Debt to Kant?” 
8.      KWAN Kai Man, HKBU
Paul Tillich on the Relationship between Morality and Religion?”    
9.      Ellen ZHANG Ying, HKBU
When the Ground of Being Encounters Emptiness: Paul Tillich and Buddhism”
10.  AU Kin Ming, CUHK
Is “Ultimate Concern” a Useful Category for Inter-religious Dialogue?”   
11.  Andrew HUNG Tsz Wan, Poly U Community College
Tillich and Confucian on Religious Ethics”  
12.  Lauren PFISTER, HKBU
Tillich and Zhang Zhai”
13.  YANG Junjie, BNU
““Being Grasped': From Paul Tillich to T. C. Chao”
14.  Keith CHAN Ka Fu, HKBU
Pneumatological Sacramentality and Cosmic Human: Tillich, Orthodox Theology and Confucianism”   
15.  KWOK Wai Luen, HKBU
Where can Barthian and Tillichian Meet? An Analysis through Robert Jenson’s Christology”      
16.  William NG Yau Nang, HKBU

Lotus Children in Buddhism and Daoism: Reflection along the line of Tillich’s idea of Symbol”      

2015年6月23日星期二

新辦公室

今天終於把所有的搬進新辦公室。在這裡等了三年,終於幸運地能有一個窗的辦公室。坐在窗前,近景是校內一條小馬路,車不多,旁邊都是些老建築,感覺有點滄桑。這辦公室原來的同事去年年底過身,搬到他的工作地方來,看著他一些從前的擺設,頗有傷感。心想不知下一個搬進來的是誰?像我一樣的學術興趣嗎?還是…看著後面整整數排書架上的書,突然感到他們陪伴我走過好幾個地方,不知他們還能陪我多久?時間像回到廿多年前,在這裡求學時的光景,都很糢糊了,那時有想過會像今天這樣坐在這當老師嗎?一切都像很遙遠似的…就像昨天似的。