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SUMMARY:Natural Theology in the 21st Century\, 2020 IRC Conference - Helen
  De Cruz (St Louis University)\, Alister McGrath (Oxford)\, Iain McGilchri
 st (Oxford)\, Olivera Petrovich (Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200716T193000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200718T180000
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DESCRIPTION:"NATURAL THEOLOGY IN THE 21st CENTURY"\nWith generous support 
 from the Issachar Fund\n\nFurther information on the conference themes\nNa
 tural theology investigates what we can know or not know about the existen
 ce and essence of God and divine revelation on the basis of what we can kn
 ow about nature. Developments and discoveries in our explorations of natur
 e (e.g.\, Aristotelianism\, Copernican revolution\, Newtonian physics\, Ka
 nt’s Critique\, Darwinian Evolution\, quantum mechanics\, and Big Bang c
 osmology) have enriched and challenged the investigations of natural theol
 ogy throughout its history. Likewise\, discoveries and revolutions in our 
 understanding of nature in the 21stcentury (e.g.\, AI\, Extended Evolution
 ary Synthesis\, fundamental physics\, etc.) will have the potential to und
 ermine or enrich future investigations in natural theology. What questions
  will natural theology need to confront in the 21st century? How can these
  insights enrich the engagement of religious communities\, such as Christi
 an churches\, with the wider culture?\nLooking backward\, what lessons do 
 the future enquiries of natural theology need to learn from its past enqui
 ries? What are the enduring achievements\, catastrophic failures\, and  ta
 ngential distractions from the history of natural theology? What place wil
 l cosmological\, ontological\, design\, moral\, and other arguments for Go
 d’s existence have in its future investigations? What were the major con
 tributions of the past hundred years of honorary lectures confronting ques
 tions in natural theology (e.g.\, Gifford\, Hulsean\, Bampton lectures)?\n
 Looking forward\, what challenges from philosophy and the sciences must na
 tural theology confront\, from numerous forms of naturalism\, to metaphysi
 cs of dispositions and grounding\, second-person perspective\, machine lea
 rning\, CRISPR\, …? Are “nature” and the “natural” still viable 
 concepts for 21st century enquiries\, including those of natural theology?
  \nWhat is or should be the scope of natural theology? Is it strictly conc
 erned with evidence and arguments based in nature known apart from appeals
  to revelation or numinous experiences? Or\, should it be construed broadl
 y to include investigations concerning historical events\, including those
  detailed in sacred and religious texts? What is the relationship between 
 natural theology and the investigations of supernatural theology\, philoso
 phy of religion\, analytic theology\, theology of nature\, and apologetics
 ? Is natural theology “natural”? Is the very project of natural theolo
 gy guilty of the charge of ontotheology? What place should metaphor and an
 alogy have in natural theology? What role do narrative arguments\, just-so
  stories\, genealogies\, and meta-narratives play in theists’\, atheists
 ’\, and agnostics’ contributions to natural theology? Can anyone—the
 ist\, agnostic\, or atheist—engage the enquiries of natural theology or 
 atheology from a neutral point of view? How might these questions be engag
 ed by religious communities seeking to engage a wider culture and cultivat
 e the reasoned faith of their members?\nSpeakers:\nHelen De Cruz (St Louis
  University)\, Alister McGrath (Oxford)\, Iain McGilchrist (Oxford)\, Oliv
 era Petrovich (Oxford)
LOCATION:Mathematical Institute (Mathematical Institute and Jurys Inn\, Ox
 ford)\, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
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