2013 - 2014

Presented By: Eben Alexander, MD A video of this lecture can be viewed at: www.contemporarymysticism.org/ For the more information either view the Poster Click Here or the Press Release Click Here.  

Facilitated By: David Hufford, PhD (Samueli Institute), and Others Click Here for a Poster About the Event

Presented By: Scott F. Gilbert, PhD, Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology, Swarthmore College Respondent: Faye Flam, Science Writer, Lightning Blog at WHYY/NewsWorks and Journalist-in-residence, Ursinus College The scientific and religious worldviews are both predicated on the experience of wonder.  Indeed, in preserving wonder, science and religion actually help maintain each other. Science and religion, then, need to be allies in preserving sources of natural wonder. As long as science and religion are kept apart, profit-motive will triumph. Interestingly, both science and religion are changing in…

Presented By: Paul Knitter, PhD Given the present state of the world in which various forms of violence threaten the well-being of people and planet, given the role that the religions of the world are playing in that violence, many religious believers and leaders feel called to fashion a new axial age in the religious history of humankind. Similar to the first axial age (800 to 200 BCE), this will call for a radical transformation in religious awareness – this time,…

Presented By: Christopher Pramuk, PhD (Associate Professor of Theology, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH) In a world riven by polarization, war, and planetary crisis, the Wisdom-Sophia tradition interjects a quiet word of unity and hope, of revelatory wonder and beauty, beckoning us to the work of healing, cross-cultural encounter and reconciliation. In a world replete with unspeakable violence against women and children, remembering and celebrating the feminine face of God, the divine presence alive in the world, becomes ever more urgent for Christianity…