Prominent theologians will participate in a discussion of "the interfaith encounter" at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Beth Tfiloh Congregation, 3300 Old Court Road, Pikesville.

The Rev. Martin E. Marty, a University of Chicago professor called "the most influential interpreter of religion in the U.S." by Time magazine, and Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz, who teaches at Hebrew Union College in New York, will take part in a program entitled "From Disputation to Dialogue: Stories of the Interfaith Encounter."

The event is sponsored by the Institute for Christian-Jewish Studies, a local interfaith coalition of lay and religious leaders, and the Jack Pearlstone Institute for Living Judaism, an endowment of the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore.