Second Annual Conference of the Association 

for Bahá'í Studies in Southern Africa

Cape Town, 26-28 December, 2000

Tuesday 26th:

2:00-2:15         Devotions
2:15-2:30         Welcome On Behalf of the Organizing Committee
2:30-4:00         Annual General Meeting.

Report of ABS-SA activities during 2000

Discussion on University presentations of Who Is Writing the Future?

Consultation on ABS activities for 2001.


Wednesday 27th

2:00-2:10         Devotions 

2:10-2:50         Dr. Robert Sarracino,Proofs of the Existence of God

2:50-3:30         Mr. Ndumiso Dlamini, The Four Ways of Knowing

3:30-4:10         Mrs. Glynis Mackenzie, Spiritual Landscapes and Spiritual Journeys – Art presentation

4:10-4:40         Break

4:40-5:20         Dr. Farhad Aghdasi, Free Will and Divine Infallibility    

5:20-6:00         Dr. Phil Christensen, The Information Dispensation: The Baha'i Faith and the Information Age

Thursday 28th

2:00-2:10         Devotions
2:10-2:50         Mr. Tshepo Baughan, Shoghi Effendi and the World Order of Baha'u'llah

2:50-3:30         Mr. George Via, Globalization and the Role of Religion in the New World Order

3:30-4:10         Ms. Lesley Bradley-Vine, Integrated Rural Development:How Africa Can Claim the 21st Century

4:10-4:40         Break

4:40-5:20         Dr. Geoff Marks, Training Institutes and the Exaltation of the Sublime Structure of the Word of God

5:20-6:00         Mr. Massoud Derakhshani, Slide Presentation

6:00-6:15         Closing

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