[Exploration of Lifestyles for the Future]
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- Date
- 1972 November 14
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Type
- Press Release
- Text of motion
- How will people in the future cope with the ever increasing pace of change and the lack of stable community? How will they cope with "Future Shock" as described by Alvin Toffler? The development or choice of lifestyles is increasingly the way in which people solve their identity crises and find a strategy for coping.
- How are lifestyles formed and what is their significance for present and future society? How does the Christian Church relate to these issues? Should the Church be producing distinctive lifestyles as demonstrations of the "Way" in our time?
- These are some of the questions which will be faced at a research conference on "Exploration of Lifestyles for the future," November 21st-23rd at the Aurora Conference Centre, sponsored by the Anglican diocese of Toronto and jointly planned by members of the Anglican, Roman Catholic, United and Presbyterian Churches. Forty persons have been invited to attend.
- A panel of experts will interact with persons representing a variety of different life styles. Panel members include: Dr. Daniel Cappon, a psychologist in the Department of Environmental Studies at York University, Dr. Herbert Richardson, Theologian at St. Michael's College and author of "The Witch, the Nun and the Playmate," Mr. Don Carveth, lecturer in Sociology at York, and Father R.R. Roach, Professor of Moral Theology at Regis College.
- The panel will be in dialogue with a business executive, an Indian poet and Sociology student, a Don Mills housewife, a member of a commune and a Nun. The Director of the Anglican Conference Centre in Aurora, the Rev. Graham Tucker who initiated the conference, hopes that "we will not only gain an understanding of the meaning and significance of the lifestyle phenomena which will be of general interest, but also we will discover some of the implications of these styles and trends for the life, worship and witness of the Church in the future. We hope that our findings will be worth publishing."
- The conference is being funded through a generous grant from the Atkinson Charitable Foundation.
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- For further information, contact:
- Rev. Graham Tucker
- Aurora Conference Centre
- 727-3241 (Bus.)
- 727-3570 (Res.)
- Subjects
- Lifestyles - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Lifestyles - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Future - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Canada - Social life and customs - 1945-
- Tucker, Graham Harold, 1925-2005