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Before I started thinking about evolution and education I did research on evolution and theology. Read reports and reflections on that research here.
Two weeks of writing have resulted in a final structure for my book. I think I’m getting closer to telling the story that I wanted to tell in my dissertation, but I still need to weed out some unnecessary digressions and to strengthen the connections between succeeding steps in my argumentation. First, I will give…
I received a review-copy of “Christ and the Created Order“. The box was rather large, as you can see. But, of course, the book treats a subject far larger than any box can contain 😉 The book is soft-cover, counting 304 pages. It seems to be printed recycled paper, the book is in any case…
Today, July 27th, I started writing on a new project. Well, actually it’s not really new. I’m revising the manuscript of my dissertation, hoping to have it ready by the end of this summer. You can see the outline of my book in the picture below. Originally, my research was about evolutionary explanations of religion…
My research in education is interdisciplinary. I want to bring together perspectives from pedagogy, theology, and evolutionary studies of culture in order to understand what it might mean for humans to educate and to be educated, to teach and to learn. This implies that I need to establish some kind of relation between different perspectives,…
With the prospect of at least a week without meetings, e-mails or deadlines, I put aside a book that I wanted to read, but didn’t find the time for. That was somewhere in January. And then I stumbled upon another book that I definitely needed to go through. And oh, that one too! And so…
This year’s Gifford Lectures by prof. Agustin Fuentes offer an exciting new perspective on human evolution, centered on human niche construction. These lectures inspired me to revisit my doctoral research on a practical cooperation between theology and evolutionary studies of religion, and reinforced my conviction that looking at (religious) education from a niche construction perspective…
Medium has an interview with Michael Burdett on theology and technology. Burdett explains some of the theological implications of technology and why it is important to have a dialogue with transhumanism. What I like the most about the interview, is the idea of an adventus approach towards technology. The following quote will clarify this a…
On Tuesday, November 7th, I successfully defended my dissertation on the relevance of evolutionary studies of religion for theology. With that, a period of fifteen years came to a close, a period in which I studied theology, for the better part in combination with a full-time job as a teacher. So the defense was a…
How can religious traditions help us to encounter God – or, rather, to recognize that we encounter God – in our lives? A crucifix in Tirol triggered me to reflect on that. Nature as a magnificent whole shows traces of your Creator, but if you want to see Him at His greatest, you need to…