Philip Hefner is op 28 april 2024 overleden. Hij was van enorme invloed op het denken over de relatie tussen wetenschap en religie. Zijn ideeën kunnen ook inspirerend zijn voor onderwijs.
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Geloof in evolutie
Vandaag kreeg ik het nieuwe nummer van Radix in handen, het tijdschrift over wetenschap en religie dat door Forum C wordt uitgegeven. Ik schreef er een artikel in waarin ik kort schets wat wetenschappelijke studie van religie vanuit evolutionair perspectief zoal inhoudt en hoe we daar in theologie mee kunnen omgaan. Hieronder kan je het…
Theology and Science: Practical Cooperation for a Better Education
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,…
Knowing the Past to Co-Create the Future.
Last week, I received an e-mail with the delightful news that my abstract for the next IRAS-conference , titled: “How Can We Know? Co-creating Knowledge in Perilous Times”, has been accepted. Moreover, the organizing committee awarded me with a Fellowship to enable me to join them. Obviously, I’m thrilled about this: a perfect way to end my…
Why Science Does Not Break the Spell of Religion
This morning I made a note on a quote by Philip Hefner, from his “The Human Factor” (p. 86): “Jesus caressed and pressed things until they began to resist, and at that point, his experience moved him to utter “Abba, Father” — the significance being not that “Father” is masculine, but that “Father” is personal….
Six Books That Shaped My Research
Tom Uytterhoeven One of the benefits of working at my faculty is that my office is located in – yes, as in physically part of – one of the largest theological libraries in the world. Reading has become a true adventure, leading to ever more new findings (sometimes it is not so much the…
An alternative imaginarium of Sicily
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution Imago Tour Sicily is a photographic project that seeks to use images to portray the unseen face of Sicily, which recoils from the stereotyped image on postcards and of tourism. We interviewed the project’s founder, Graziella Russo. Tom Uytterhoeven’s insight: What I like about this project is that it…