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Talks at the Claremont Forum
February 21
Allan Hartley will talk on “Spiritual Partnership,” the complementary nature of man and woman and its transcendent value. In this talk, he covers ideas expressed by Rabbi Moses Ben Nahman in the thirteenth century in the “Letter on Holiness,” whose concern was “to bring holiness—divine life—into the very heart of the intimate act between couples,”; to the earlier Gospel of Philip where it says that, “it is neither man nor woman but the relation between them that is in the image of God.” He brings his message up to date with the modern philosopher Ralph D. Ellis and his idea that the other person is valued independently of us and focused with empathy on “her uniqueness, fleetingness, and irreplaceability”—her embattled finitude.
The talk will be held at the Claremont Forum (in the Packing House) at 586 W. First Street in Claremont, California on February 21, 2010 at 3pm. The cost is $10.00.
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