Text and Truth Autumn 2009

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Autumn Quarter, 2009

 

Science and Christian Faith

in the Modern Research University

October 12, 2009  -  Philip Jensen: "Departmentalization and compartmentalization of the Bible in the academy and its effects on Biblical theology and the university more broadly."

Philip Jensen is Dean of Sydney at St. Andrew’s Cathedral and Director of the Sydney Diocesan Ministry Training and Development.   Many resources relevant to integrating Christian faith and the academic enterprise are available at his website.  

      http://www.phillipjensen.com/

Since Dean Jensen will be in Chicago for another event,  we are taking advantage of his time here.  His talk should provide some useful history for the often heated debate about the relationship between science and Christian faith.

October 20, 2009  -  David Mazziotti

David Mazziotti is professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago.

  http://chemistry.uchicago.edu/fac/mazziotti.shtml

Professor Mazziotti’s research has focused on new methods for studying small-to-medium-sized atoms and molecules. These methods will assist chemists in investigating various properties of molecular structures at many levels of analysis.  Recently, he has gained recognition for the discovery of a method for predicting the behavior of electrons in a single atom by computing the properties of just two electrons.

   http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=7045

October 27, 2009  -  Don York

Don York is professor of astronomy and astrophysics

  http://astro.uchicago.edu/people/donald-g-york.shtml

and until recently director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the telescopes that made the survey possible.

   http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/970306/york.shtml

Professor York has been a faculty sponsor for the local InterVarsity grad group and serves as co-director of a University of Chicago project on use of the internet for the Chicago public schools.  

   http://cuip.net/cuip/about/staff/don_bio.htm

November 3, 2009  -  Stephen Meredith

Stephen Meredith is professor of pathology, biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the University of Chicago in the medical school and the college.  Famous for his multidisciplinary teaching

  http://pritzker.uchicago.edu/about/academy/members/meredith.shtml 

Prof. Meredith is well known for his research,  

http://bmb.bsd.uchicago.edu/Faculty_and_Research/01_Faculty/01_Faculty_Alphabetically.php?faculty_id=106

as well as for speaking last year for the Lumen Christi Institute on "Thomas Aquinas, Scientist: How Might He Approach 21st Century Biotechnology"

  http://vimeo.com/5698286

and with Jean Bethke Elshtain about the question,  “What Should We Think about Human Nature?”

November 10, 2009  -  Dr. Farr Curlin

Dr. Farr Curlin is professor of internal medicine at the University of Chicago medical school and member of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.  Dr. Curlin has  been engaged in a major research project on the religious commitments of doctors and their practice of medicine.

   http://experts.uchicago.edu/experts.php?id=553

In addition, Dr. Curlin has recently won a major grant from the Templeton Foundation for the establishment of a center at the university on spirituality, theology, and clinical decision making, similar to the one at Duke.

  http://www.spiritualityandhealth.duke.edu/faculty/curlin.html