God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering
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Bethany Sollereder | How do we find meaning in suffering? Should we even try? When there are no easy answers, how do we move forward faithfully?
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Space Exploration and the Christian Faith
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Jennifer Wiseman | How does her work inform her faith? What does astronomy teach us about humanity's place in the universe? And (we couldn't not ask): what's up with aliens?
Covenant or Contract: The Practice of Medicine
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Jennie McLaurin | How does the understanding of medicine as a moral art––not just a scientific one––impact patient care?
How do Environmental Issues Fit Into Christian Discipleship?
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Matt Humphrey | How do we cultivate a right relationship to place and space in a mobile society? And is it possible to engage with these issues without getting political?
On Animals Volume II: The Challenge of Christian Animal Ethics
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David Clough | Building on the theology of animals developed in Volume I, the book challenges Christians to recognize serious faith-based reasons to rethink their practice in relation to other animals, especially in relation to our use of them for food.
Inchoate Hope, The Spirit’s Prayer
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David Robinson | This a Regent chapel talk given during the winter of 2019.
God, Evolution and Animal Suffering – Theodicy without a Fall
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Bethany Sollereder | This talk embarks on an adventure in the theology of creation, reflecting on what science has uncovered about the history of life and what it means for belief in a living and loving God.
The Shifting Territories of Science and Religion
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Peter Harrison | In this lecture Peter suggests that the concepts 'religion' and 'science' are essentially modern inventions that often fail to capture the essence of the activities as they are conducted in practice.
Beyond ‘Design’: Evolutionary Biology and a Theology of Preservation
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David Robinson | This lecture revisits the nineteenth-century context of William Paley's famous argument that the precise functionality of nature leads us to infer a divine designer, as well as Charles Darwin's critical response in On the Origin of Species.
Who am I? Personhood, Consciousness, and Transhumanist Visions
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Jens Zimmermann | This lecture argues that modern culture embraces a reductive model of human identity and perception based on an already defunct scientific epistemology.