Announcements
Distinguished Chemist Schaefer to speak
Posted by Karl Johnson on Tue, Aug 31, 2010 12:57 pm
We are very privileged to host distinguished chemist Henry Fritz Schaefer on Wednesday, Sept. 8th
Articles & Essays
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Aug 13, 2010Wall Street Journal
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Aug 9, 2010Doggie Head Tilt Blog
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Aug 8, 2010The Afghanistan Analysts Network
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Aug 6, 2010Wall Street Journal
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Aug 6, 2010The Global Conversation
Upcoming Public Lectures
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Wed, Sep 8, 2010
7:30 pm |
Dr. Henry Fritz Schaefer
Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall |
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Thu, Oct 28, 2010
7:00 pm |
Elaine Howard Ecklund
Robert & Mabel Beggs Lecture on Science, Spirituality and Society
Sage Chapel |
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Sat, Nov 13, 2010
7:00 pm |
Ryan O'Dowd
Graduate Christian Fellowship Roundtable
Big Red Barn |
The Skinny
Science vs. Religion?
Posted by Karl Johnson on Thu, Apr 8, 2010 9:00 pm
"[S]cientists who care about the public knowledge of science . . . should set forth an agenda for dialogue and deprivatization of discussions about religion, one that emphasizes a more nuanced view of religion and a more realistic view of the limits of science"
-Elaine Howard Ecklund
Back in December, a number of ex-evangelicals gathered in New York City to discuss evangelicalism's relationship to intellectual life. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, "some of America's brightest contemporary intellectuals gathered at the New School to discuss the tenuous relationship between 'Evangelicalism and the Contemporary Intellectual.' The discussion was predictably thoughtful, though evangelical belief was treated as something necessarily dispensed with on the way to becoming a public scholar." The article, "Winning Not Just Hearts but Minds," kindly mentioned Chesterton House among recent efforts to "foster the life of the evangelical mind."
To be sure, anti-intellectualism in the pews is a real problem. Still, this is a strange moment to suggest that becoming an intellectual necessarily entails discarding faith.
