Events
Fall 2013 鈥 Book study and lecture by Holmes Rolston, PhD
SASS will host a book study this fall, which will meet several times before the October 23 lecture by visiting scholar Holmes Rolston.
Holmes Rolston is professor of philosophy at Colorado State University. He has written seven books, acclaimed in critical notice in both professional journals and the national press. The more recent are A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth and Three Big Bangs. He has written chapters in 80 other books and penned over 100 articles. Rolston was awarded the Templeton Prize in Religion in 2003 and the Mendel Medal by Villanova University in 2005. He delivered the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1997/1998. Rolston was distinguished lecturer at the 28th Nobel Conference, 1992, at Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota, authorized by the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm.
Lecture title and synopsis
鈥淭hree Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life, Mind鈥
October 23, 2013
At the primordial big bang, matter-energy appears, with the remarkable capacity to generate heavier elements and complexity. Life explodes on Earth, with DNA discovering, storing, and transferring information, escalating biodiversity and biocomplexity. The human genius is radically novel, mind explodes, hyper-immensely complex. Ideas pass cumulatively from mind to mind. Those at the center of complex caring intelligence wonder: Is there sacred Logos in, with, and such breakthrough creativity?
Spring 2013
Book study group: The Evolution of Adam by Peter Enns, PhD, Harvard University. Led by Dr. Roman Miller, John Fairfield and Dr. Christian Early.
Fall 2012
Dr. Richard Beck, professor and chair of psychology at Abilene Christian University, speaks on 鈥淭he Will to Embrace: In Search of Christian Hospitality鈥
Spring 2012
Study group: 鈥淭owards Secular Language With the Scope of Religious Language鈥
鈥淪uperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed鈥 by Martin Nowak and Roger Highfield
Fall 2011
鈥淲ho made the Moon? A Father Explores How Faith and Science Agree鈥 by Sigmund Brouwer, who led a university chapel service on 鈥淚s Genesis a Fence Barrier to the Cross鈥 and provided an additional evening presentation in March 2012. His messages focused on recent findings on why young Christians leave the church and why understanding our origins 鈥 and Genesis 鈥 is so crucial to faith.
2010-11
- 鈥淎ttachment Styles and Parenting鈥 by Luanne Bender Long and Christine Spilman
- 鈥楾he place of 鈥PLACE鈥 in our Search for Shalom鈥 by Janel Curry
- 鈥淐onversations on Attachment: Integrating the Science of Love and Spirituality鈥 conference on the campus of 91短视频 March 31 鈥 April 2, 2011
2009-10
- 鈥淭he Nature of Economic Fraud Crimes鈥 by Dr. Anthony Pratkanis
- 鈥淢olecular Neurobiology of Attachment and Social Bonding鈥 by Dr. Larry Young
- 鈥淐aring: How we Become Attached鈥 by Dr. Nel Noddings
- 鈥淐linical Ethical Decision-Making鈥 by Dr. Robert Shabanowitz
