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The Faraday Institute for Science & Religion and The Darwin Festival in Cambridge present:
Did Darwin Kill God? The BBC2 Documentary
Introduced by the presenter Conor Cunningham
Followed by questions and discussion
5.45pm, 7th July 2009
Full information available on the event poster here.
The Veritas series page has been updated to reflect the addition of three new works.
The first is for a volume just-released: J. P. Moreland's The Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism.
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Endorsements:
"J. P. Moreland's new book is a tour de force. In six clear, concise and tightly-argued chapters, he raises profound objections to the attempts of modern naturalistic philosophers to accommodate human consciousness, free will, rationality, selfhood and morality within a purely physical world-view. He thereby significantly enhances the intellectual appeal of a theistic alternative. All open-minded metaphysicians, philosophers of mind and philosophical theologians should read this book." — E. J. Lowe, Professor of Philosophy, Durham University
"J.P. Moreland's book is a masterpiece of clear, compelling, accessible arguments against naturalism, and a powerful defense of a Christian understanding of persons. This should be required reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of human nature and the debate between theism and naturalism today." — Charles Taliaferro, St Olaf Collage
"The Recalcitrant Imago Dei is a wonderful read. Chapter by chapter, Moreland systematically sets forth how naturalism denies what is so obvious about ourselves, which is that we are conscious, rational souls that have the power to make undetermined choices for purposes. The power of the book lies in the way that it makes clear how human beings become unrecognizable once naturalism has worked them over. Through page after page of careful argument, Moreland shows all of us how deeply unnatural the naturalist account of ourselves is." — Stewart Goetz, St Ursinus College
"Materialistic naturalism has, for some years, been the received wisdom in philosophy, as well as amongst much of the educated public. Many serious philosophical arguments have been brought against this ideology, but usually in a series of separate controversies. J.P. Moreland's great service is to bring all these objections together, whilst adding his own original contributions, in a very effective anti-naturalist polemic. He shows us that the materialist world picture cannot accommodate the most basic phenomena of human life: It has no place for consciousness, free will, rationality, the human subject or any kind of intrinsic value. Materialism does not disprove these human realities, it is simply incapable of accounting for them in any remotely plausible way. I would add to the list of its failures that naturalism lacks even a coherent account of the physical world itself. Moreland makes a very good case for saying that, as a serious world view, naturalism is a non-starter: more traditional, theistic philosophies fare much better in the face both of the phenomena and of argument." — Howard Robinson, University Professor in Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest
The next two are for this year's forthcoming edited conference volumes:
The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth, edited by Angus Paddison and Adrian Pabst; and The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition, and Universalism, edited by Peter M. Candler Jr. and Conor Cunningham. Further information on these volumes is forthcoming.
On the occasion of the publication of The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (by John Milbank & Slavoj Žižek; Creston Davis, ed.) comes a public debate between John Milbank and Slavoj Žižek, which took place on 18 June 2009, chaired by Giles Fraser, vicar of Putney..
Some photographs, as well as an entire audio recording in MP3 format of this event can now be found here.
The latest issue of Modern Theology has two articles of note in regard to the work of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy.
First is an essay by Todd S. Mei entitled "Economy of the Gift: Rethinking the Role of Land Enclosure in Political Economy" which interacts with the work of both Philip Goodchild and John Milbank.
Second is a review essay by Adriaan Peperzak entitled "Phenomenology--Metaphysics--Theology" wherein he reviews the Centre's two conference volumes published thus far, Phenomenology and Transcendence and Belief and Metaphysics.
(Sculpture by Sara Cunningham-Bell)