Contemplative Humanities
Thu, 08 Sept
|ACCT Seminar Room
Asian Centre for Creative Theology (ACCT) is a para-ministry of Awarezen focused on integral, contemplative, and spiritually-formative education for wise compassionate citizens of an increasingly conflicted future.
Time & Location
08 Sept 2022, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm SGT
ACCT Seminar Room
About the event
Asian Centre for Creative Theology is an educational think tank and virtual academy that explores contemplative and theological issues, It is a nexus for critical immersion in the teachings and theologies, philosophies and praxes of major faith and wisdom traditions that have emerged over the last three millennia of world history. We engage with and from the cultures of Asia in a spirit of sensitivity and immersion, decolonial sensibility and justice, and dialogical interspirituality and inclusivity.
At ACCT, we believe that exposing minds to global humanities and contemplative pedagogies is crucial to producing spiritually mature, profoundly wise and resilient, and contemplatively skilled individuals in touch with themselves and their ultimate purpose. On a broader contextual level, global humanities and contemplative wisdoms can contribute creatively to a wisdom-based society—moving beyond Smart to Wise Nation.
Within a contemplative framework, the liberal arts can forge positive habits of mind and heart through critical…