Interreligious Academic Workshop on Comparative Theology
Interreligious Academic Workshop on Comparative Theology
October 13, 2026
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
In Person at JTS
3080 Broadway (at 122nd Street)
New York City
Sponsors: JTS Hendel Center for Ethics and Justice | JTS Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue | Columbia Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life | Columbia University — Religious Life | Union Theological Seminary
This conference brings together Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thought and theology to discuss the challenges and opportunities of studying theology together. The event features a keynote lecture by Klaus von Stosch, an eminent German scholar of “comparative theology,” with responses from prominent scholars of Jewish theology, history, and thought, in addition to panels on “Shared and Divergent Cultures of Interpretation”; “Universalism, Particularism, and the Other”; “Divine Love, Human Love, and Ethics.”
The conference program can be found here.
