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SUMMARY:Does God Create Thorough Evolution? The Aristotelian-Thomistic Perspective.
DESCRIPTION:Many enthusiasts of theistic evolution willingly accept Aquinas’s distinction between primary and secondary causes\, to describe theologically “the mechanics” of evolutionary transformation. They claim that God invites and enables contingent entities to participate in his divine act of creating new natural kinds. However\, Aquinas clearly states “it is impossible for any creature to create\, either by its own power or instrumentally—that is\, ministerially” (ST I\, 45\, 5\, co.) and adds\, on yet another occasion\, that “To the perfection of the universe there can be added something daily with regard to the number of individuals\, not\, however\, with regard to the number of species.” (ST I\, 118\, 3\, ad 2). On the course of my lecture I will offer: (1) a constructive proposal of the Thomistic metaphysics of evolutionary transformation\, (2) an answer to the question of whether God creates through evolution\, and (3) a constructive model of the concurrent action of God and creatures in coming into existence of new natural kinds. \nMARIUSZ TABACZEK\, O.P.\nFr Mariusz is Polish Dominican\, theologian (he holds Ph.D. in philosophical theology from the Graduate Theological Union\, Berkeley\, CA and Church Licentiate from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan\, Poland). He currently works as a researcher at the Thomistic Institute in Warsaw\, a lecturer at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw and the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Krakow\, and a director of Studium Dominicanum in Warsaw. He published a number of articles on metaphysics and the issues concerning the relation of theology and science in Zygon\, Theology and Science\, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly\, and Scientia et Fides. He coauthored two chapters in the second edition of Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction (ed. by Gary Ferngren). He is the author of Emergence. Towards A New Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science (2019). His forthcoming second book will refer to the panentheistic model of divine action based on the theory of emergence.
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SUMMARY:Evolution and Human Origins - Aquinas Seminar Series 2020
DESCRIPTION:Evolution and Human Origins: Theological and Philosophical Reflections\nSeminar series \n30 January\n“The Goal-Directedness of Evolution: Thomistic Perspectives on a Controversial Question”\nDr Simon Kopf (King’s College\, London) \n6 February\n“The Theology of Original Sin and Human Origins”\nDr Richard Conrad\, OP (Blackfriars) \n13 February\n“Hylomorphism and Evolution in Four Dimensions”\nDr Daniel De Haan (Ian Ramsey Centre) \n20 February\n“Dogmatic Theology and Human Origins”\nDr Simon Gaine\, OP (Blackfriars) \n27 February\n“God\, Evolution\, and the Body of Adam”\nKenneth Kemp (University of St. Thomas\, Minnesota) \n5 March\n“Aristotle and Aquinas on the Proportionate Causes of Species”\nProf Brian Carl (University of St Thomas\, Houston) \n12 March\n“Evolution and Violence: Is Humanity Wired for War or Peace?”\nCelia Deane-Drummond (Campion Hall) \n  \nOpen for all.  Registration is not required.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/evolution-and-human-origins-aquinas-seminar-series-2020/2020-02-06/
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SUMMARY:Evolution and Human Origins - Aquinas Seminar Series 2020
DESCRIPTION:Evolution and Human Origins: Theological and Philosophical Reflections\nSeminar series \n30 January\n“The Goal-Directedness of Evolution: Thomistic Perspectives on a Controversial Question”\nDr Simon Kopf (King’s College\, London) \n6 February\n“The Theology of Original Sin and Human Origins”\nDr Richard Conrad\, OP (Blackfriars) \n13 February\n“Hylomorphism and Evolution in Four Dimensions”\nDr Daniel De Haan (Ian Ramsey Centre) \n20 February\n“Dogmatic Theology and Human Origins”\nDr Simon Gaine\, OP (Blackfriars) \n27 February\n“God\, Evolution\, and the Body of Adam”\nKenneth Kemp (University of St. Thomas\, Minnesota) \n5 March\n“Aristotle and Aquinas on the Proportionate Causes of Species”\nProf Brian Carl (University of St Thomas\, Houston) \n12 March\n“Evolution and Violence: Is Humanity Wired for War or Peace?”\nCelia Deane-Drummond (Campion Hall) \n  \nOpen for all.  Registration is not required.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/evolution-and-human-origins-aquinas-seminar-series-2020/2020-02-13/
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SUMMARY:Can Science Explain Everything?
DESCRIPTION:Can science explain everything? Many people think so. Science\, and the technologies it has spawned\, has delivered so much to the world: clean water; more food; better healthcare; longer life. And we live in a time of rapid scientific progress that holds enormous promise for many of the problems we face as humankind. So much so\, in fact\, that many see no need or use for religion and belief systems that offer us answers to the mysteries of our universe. Science has explained it\, they assume. Religion is redundant. Oxford Maths Professor and Christian believer John Lennox offers a fresh way of thinking about science and Christianity that dispels the common misconceptions about both. He reveals that not only are they not opposed\, but they can and must mix to give us a fuller understanding of the universe and the meaning of our existence. \nProf. John Lennox\nProf John Lennox studied at the Royal School Armagh\, Northern Ireland and was Exhibitioner and Senior Scholar at Emmanuel College\, Cambridge University from which he took his MA\, MMath and PhD. He worked for many years in the Mathematics Institute at the University of Wales in Cardiff which awarded him a DSc for his research. He also holds an MA and DPhil from Oxford University (by incorporation) and an MA in Bioethics from the University of Surrey. He was a Senior Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow at the Universities of Würzburg and Freiburg in Germany. \nHe has lectured extensively in North America\, Eastern and Western Europe and Australasia on mathematics\, the philosophy of science and the intellectual defence of Christianity. He has written a number of books on the interface between science\, philosophy and theology. These include God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (2009)\, God and Stephen Hawking\, a response to The Grand Design (2011)\, Gunning for God\, on the new atheism (2011)\, and Seven Days that Divide the World\, on the first chapters of Genesis (2011). He has also written a number of books exploring biblical themes\, including Against the Flow (2015)\, on the topic of Daniel\, Determined to Believe? (2017)\, on the the subject of free will and God’s sovereignty\, Joseph (2019)\, on the story in Genesis\, and the ‘Key Bible Concepts’ series\, co–written with David Gooding (in the 1990s). His most recent titles are Have no Fear (2018)\, on evangelism today\, Can Science Explain Everything? (2019)\, on the relationship between science and Christianity\, and the six–part ‘Quest for Reality and Significance’ series co–written by David Gooding (2018–9). Furthermore\, in addition to over seventy published mathematical papers\, he is the co–author of two research level texts in algebra in the Oxford Mathematical Monographs series.
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SUMMARY:Evolution and Human Origins - Aquinas Seminar Series 2020
DESCRIPTION:Evolution and Human Origins: Theological and Philosophical Reflections\nSeminar series \n30 January\n“The Goal-Directedness of Evolution: Thomistic Perspectives on a Controversial Question”\nDr Simon Kopf (King’s College\, London) \n6 February\n“The Theology of Original Sin and Human Origins”\nDr Richard Conrad\, OP (Blackfriars) \n13 February\n“Hylomorphism and Evolution in Four Dimensions”\nDr Daniel De Haan (Ian Ramsey Centre) \n20 February\n“Dogmatic Theology and Human Origins”\nDr Simon Gaine\, OP (Blackfriars) \n27 February\n“God\, Evolution\, and the Body of Adam”\nKenneth Kemp (University of St. Thomas\, Minnesota) \n5 March\n“Aristotle and Aquinas on the Proportionate Causes of Species”\nProf Brian Carl (University of St Thomas\, Houston) \n12 March\n“Evolution and Violence: Is Humanity Wired for War or Peace?”\nCelia Deane-Drummond (Campion Hall) \n  \nOpen for all.  Registration is not required.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/evolution-and-human-origins-aquinas-seminar-series-2020/2020-02-20/
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SUMMARY:Evolution and Human Origins - Aquinas Seminar Series 2020
DESCRIPTION:Evolution and Human Origins: Theological and Philosophical Reflections\nSeminar series \n30 January\n“The Goal-Directedness of Evolution: Thomistic Perspectives on a Controversial Question”\nDr Simon Kopf (King’s College\, London) \n6 February\n“The Theology of Original Sin and Human Origins”\nDr Richard Conrad\, OP (Blackfriars) \n13 February\n“Hylomorphism and Evolution in Four Dimensions”\nDr Daniel De Haan (Ian Ramsey Centre) \n20 February\n“Dogmatic Theology and Human Origins”\nDr Simon Gaine\, OP (Blackfriars) \n27 February\n“God\, Evolution\, and the Body of Adam”\nKenneth Kemp (University of St. Thomas\, Minnesota) \n5 March\n“Aristotle and Aquinas on the Proportionate Causes of Species”\nProf Brian Carl (University of St Thomas\, Houston) \n12 March\n“Evolution and Violence: Is Humanity Wired for War or Peace?”\nCelia Deane-Drummond (Campion Hall) \n  \nOpen for all.  Registration is not required.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/evolution-and-human-origins-aquinas-seminar-series-2020/2020-02-27/
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