Scientific theories about the origin and structure of the universe communicate deeply held beliefs about meaning and purpose. In this short course, we’ll explore pictures of the cosmos both ancient and modern, examining how Christians responded to Greek and Roman accounts of the cosmos and how Christians today think about the Big Bang, cosmological constants, and quantum theory. We’ll be joined by a variety of guest faculty in the sciences to lead discussion.
This reading group meets twice a month to discuss an article, chapter, or podcast selected by a member. The group is open to all graduate & professional students and postdocs. Past discussions have addressed a range of topics, including transhumanism, single-use plastics in labs, race and biology, philosophy of science, history of science, and more.
Contact us at gcf_scienceandfaith@duke.edu if interested in joining!
Group co-sponsored by Graduate Christian Fellowship and the Center for Christianity and Scholarship.
Come join us for our weekly meal! We'll enjoy fellowship with one another over food prepared by a member of our local community.
Scientific theories about the origin and structure of the universe communicate deeply held beliefs about meaning and purpose. In this short course, we’ll explore pictures of the cosmos both ancient and modern, examining how Christians responded to Greek and Roman accounts of the cosmos and how Christians today think about the Big Bang, cosmological constants, and quantum theory. We’ll be joined by a variety of guest faculty in the sciences to lead discussion.
When men are treated as the default sex, women pose challenging intellectual problems: Does difference imply inferiority? How much do our bodies shape our vocations? What does the entanglement of mother and child reveal about what it means to be human? This group explores a wide range of Christian women's reflections on women's experiences of God, the church, and political and intellectual life. Readings may include excerpts from Edith Stein ("The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace"), Pauli Murray ("Sermon on the Ordination of Women"), Sarah Coakley (God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay on the Trinity), Erika Bachiochi (The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision), and more. Bring your own suggested readings to share with the group!
Come join us for our weekly meal! We'll enjoy fellowship with one another over food prepared by a member of our local community.
Scientific theories about the origin and structure of the universe communicate deeply held beliefs about meaning and purpose. In this short course, we’ll explore pictures of the cosmos both ancient and modern, examining how Christians responded to Greek and Roman accounts of the cosmos and how Christians today think about the Big Bang, cosmological constants, and quantum theory. We’ll be joined by a variety of guest faculty in the sciences to lead discussion.
This reading group meets twice a month to discuss an article, chapter, or podcast selected by a member. The group is open to all graduate & professional students and postdocs. Past discussions have addressed a range of topics, including transhumanism, single-use plastics in labs, race and biology, philosophy of science, history of science, and more.
Contact us at gcf_scienceandfaith@duke.edu if interested in joining!
Group co-sponsored by Graduate Christian Fellowship and the Center for Christianity and Scholarship.
Come join us for our weekly meal! We'll enjoy fellowship with one another over food prepared by a member of our local community.
Scientific theories about the origin and structure of the universe communicate deeply held beliefs about meaning and purpose. In this short course, we’ll explore pictures of the cosmos both ancient and modern, examining how Christians responded to Greek and Roman accounts of the cosmos and how Christians today think about the Big Bang, cosmological constants, and quantum theory. We’ll be joined by a variety of guest faculty in the sciences to lead discussion.
When men are treated as the default sex, women pose challenging intellectual problems: Does difference imply inferiority? How much do our bodies shape our vocations? What does the entanglement of mother and child reveal about what it means to be human? This group explores a wide range of Christian women's reflections on women's experiences of God, the church, and political and intellectual life. Readings may include excerpts from Edith Stein ("The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace"), Pauli Murray ("Sermon on the Ordination of Women"), Sarah Coakley (God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay on the Trinity), Erika Bachiochi (The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision), and more. Bring your own suggested readings to share with the group!
Does God exist? How can we know? In this short course, we’ll survey classic arguments for God’s existence from the Christian tradition. Reading short, carefully selected excerpts from primary texts by authors like Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, William Paley, C. S. Lewis, William Lane Craig, and more, we’ll hit the highlights of major philosophical arguments across the centuries. Come ready to wonder, question, and debate, and leave ready “to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.”
Come join us for our weekly meal! We'll enjoy fellowship with one another over food prepared by a member of our local community.
This reading group meets twice a month to discuss an article, chapter, or podcast selected by a member. The group is open to all graduate & professional students and postdocs. Past discussions have addressed a range of topics, including transhumanism, single-use plastics in labs, race and biology, philosophy of science, history of science, and more.
Contact us at gcf_scienceandfaith@duke.edu if interested in joining!
Group co-sponsored by Graduate Christian Fellowship and the Center for Christianity and Scholarship.
Does God exist? How can we know? In this short course, we’ll survey classic arguments for God’s existence from the Christian tradition. Reading short, carefully selected excerpts from primary texts by authors like Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, William Paley, C. S. Lewis, William Lane Craig, and more, we’ll hit the highlights of major philosophical arguments across the centuries. Come ready to wonder, question, and debate, and leave ready “to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.”
Come join us for our weekly meal! We'll enjoy fellowship with one another over food prepared by a member of our local community.
When men are treated as the default sex, women pose challenging intellectual problems: Does difference imply inferiority? How much do our bodies shape our vocations? What does the entanglement of mother and child reveal about what it means to be human? This group explores a wide range of Christian women's reflections on women's experiences of God, the church, and political and intellectual life. Readings may include excerpts from Edith Stein ("The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace"), Pauli Murray ("Sermon on the Ordination of Women"), Sarah Coakley (God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay on the Trinity), Erika Bachiochi (The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision), and more. Bring your own suggested readings to share with the group!
Does God exist? How can we know? In this short course, we’ll survey classic arguments for God’s existence from the Christian tradition. Reading short, carefully selected excerpts from primary texts by authors like Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, William Paley, C. S. Lewis, William Lane Craig, and more, we’ll hit the highlights of major philosophical arguments across the centuries. Come ready to wonder, question, and debate, and leave ready “to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.”
Come join us for our weekly meal! We'll enjoy fellowship with one another over food prepared by a member of our local community.
Does God exist? How can we know? In this short course, we’ll survey classic arguments for God’s existence from the Christian tradition. Reading short, carefully selected excerpts from primary texts by authors like Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, William Paley, C. S. Lewis, William Lane Craig, and more, we’ll hit the highlights of major philosophical arguments across the centuries. Come ready to wonder, question, and debate, and leave ready “to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.”
We believe that knowledge and cultural change are catalyzed by gospel conversation in public discourse. Such conversations are essential for today’s leaders as well as for leaders of the next generation.
As an initiative of the Center for Christianity and Scholarship, every et Religio Dinner helps fund similar engagements for students and faculty in Triangle-area universities.
et Religio Dinners bring people together to enjoy a three-course meal while exploring Christian and other dimensions of a topic facing society. Participants will have an opportunity to listen to expert panelists and then to discuss the topic of the night among themselves at their dinner table of 8-10 guests.
Each table conversation aims to have three segments: comprehension (understanding the topic and what is at stake), analysis (how differing worldviews view the topic), and action (how do differing worldviews respond).
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Come join us for our weekly meal! We'll enjoy fellowship with one another over food prepared by a member of our local community.
When men are treated as the default sex, women pose challenging intellectual problems: Does difference imply inferiority? How much do our bodies shape our vocations? What does the entanglement of mother and child reveal about what it means to be human? This group explores a wide range of Christian women's reflections on women's experiences of God, the church, and political and intellectual life. Readings may include excerpts from Edith Stein ("The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace"), Pauli Murray ("Sermon on the Ordination of Women"), Sarah Coakley (God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay on the Trinity), Erika Bachiochi (The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision), and more. Bring your own suggested readings to share with the group!
Does God exist? How can we know? In this short course, we’ll survey classic arguments for God’s existence from the Christian tradition. Reading short, carefully selected excerpts from primary texts by authors like Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, William Paley, C. S. Lewis, William Lane Craig, and more, we’ll hit the highlights of major philosophical arguments across the centuries. Come ready to wonder, question, and debate, and leave ready “to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.”
Does God exist? How can we know? In this short course, we’ll survey classic arguments for God’s existence from the Christian tradition. Reading short, carefully selected excerpts from primary texts by authors like Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, William Paley, C. S. Lewis, William Lane Craig, and more, we’ll hit the highlights of major philosophical arguments across the centuries. Come ready to wonder, question, and debate, and leave ready “to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.”
When men are treated as the default sex, women pose challenging intellectual problems: Does difference imply inferiority? How much do our bodies shape our vocations? What does the entanglement of mother and child reveal about what it means to be human? This group explores a wide range of Christian women's reflections on women's experiences of God, the church, and political and intellectual life. Readings may include excerpts from Edith Stein ("The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace"), Pauli Murray ("Sermon on the Ordination of Women"), Sarah Coakley (God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay on the Trinity), Erika Bachiochi (The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision), and more. Bring your own suggested readings to share with the group!
This reading group meets twice a month to discuss an article, chapter, or podcast selected by a member. The group is open to all graduate & professional students and postdocs. Past discussions have addressed a range of topics, including transhumanism, single-use plastics in labs, race and biology, philosophy of science, history of science, and more.
Contact us at gcf_scienceandfaith@duke.edu if interested in joining!
Group co-sponsored by Graduate Christian Fellowship and the Center for Christianity and Scholarship.
When men are treated as the default sex, women pose challenging intellectual problems: Does difference imply inferiority? How much do our bodies shape our vocations? What does the entanglement of mother and child reveal about what it means to be human? This group explores a wide range of Christian women's reflections on women's experiences of God, the church, and political and intellectual life. Readings may include excerpts from Edith Stein ("The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace"), Pauli Murray ("Sermon on the Ordination of Women"), Sarah Coakley (God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay on the Trinity), Erika Bachiochi (The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision), and more. Bring your own suggested readings to share with the group!
