A home for the mind, heart and spirit The Role of Faith in Meeting the Challenges of Development and Dignity ACUNS Fordham University June 2016 A home for the mind, heart and spirit
A home for the mind, heart and spirit
The Role of Faith in Meeting the Challenges of Development and Dignity
ACUNSFordham University
June 2016
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
The role of faith in meeting the challenges of
development and dignity is: to motivate, sustain and probe individuals and communities in
seeking the good of all.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
The role of faith is especially important in inviting, encouraging and accompanying a future that is
better than the present andopen to the good of all.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
The UN system is paying greater attention -at all levels- to the role of
faith in all aspects of human endeavors.
This might greatly help all member states become more attuned to the
contributions of people of faith.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
A personalist approach
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Dag HammarskjöldBan Ki-moon
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
The faith of whom? The role of whom?
The development of whom? The dignity of whom?
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Human rights are personal rights protecting all
in the intimacy of their beliefs.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Human rights protect all of us from destructive use of religions,
especially those who venture into the exploration of differences and
emerging realities.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
We co-author each other and can use words to give or take lives.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Humans -each human- move from immediacy to a world mediated by meaning and motivated by value.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Other humans came before us and taught us to speak and live.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Life spoke to many of them.
They encountered life beyond what we can see, touch and feel
in our own bodies. They had faith.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Like them, I am a believer asking questions on the role of faith in development and dignity.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
The role of faith in meeting the challenges of
development and dignity is: to motivate, sustain and probe individuals and communities in
seeking the good of all.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Yet, I cannot escape my own subjectivity.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
As any other human being, each of us is at the same time unique and universal, and can be percived by
others as a gift or a threat.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Emir Abd El Kader
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
One person at a time.One word at a time.One act at a time.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Development as living and creative response to adversity
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Faith, hope and agency reveal human dignity.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Solidarity v. exclusion
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
“Seek what unites not what divides.”
Pope John XXIII
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
RecognizingUnderstanding
ProbingEngaging
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
"Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away." -Mahatma Gandhi 1948
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
In faith, if you seek development and recognize dignity,
listen to the poor and speak to the powerful…
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Be prudent and kind with those who you do not know and those
who you think you know.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Contribute who you are to a humanity that is always in the making.
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A home for the mind, heart and spirit
Eskerrik Asko
(Thanks; 謝謝 ; Cпасибо; شكر; Merci; Gracias)
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