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This Sacred World: A Lecture and Workshop on the Emerging Dialogue Between Science and Religion
Friday, April 25, 2008 - Saturday, April 26, 2008
Location: The Center for Spiritual Development, Portland OR
503.478.1218
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The Center for Spiritual Development is pleased to present a lecture/workshop weekend on the emerging dialogue between science and religion with scholar Philip Clayton. A Friday evening lecture and Saturday workshop on the subject will take place at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, April 25 & 26, 2008. Friday evening’s lecture titled, “This Sacred World: Irreducible Complexity in Science and the Emerging God” takes place at 7:30pm in Trinity Cathedral and Saturday’s workshop continues the exploration of the weekend’s topic from 9am to 3pm in Kempton Hall of Trinity Cathedral.
Throughout history, God has always been conceived in dialogue with the best science of the day. Modern science sought to reduce all natural phenomena to matter and the laws of physics; theologians in response preached a transcendent God separate from the world. But a revolution has taken place in the last decades. Scientists now recognize nature's tendency to produce more and more complex forms of organization, not all reducible to fundamental laws – a paradigm of emergent complexity. This new paradigm of the world gives rise to radically different assessments of human consciousness, morality, and spirituality. How should one conceive the divine in a world of pervasive emergence?
In this weekend’s presentations, Philip Clayton, a leading scholar of science and religion, will introduce the audience to the new paradigm of emergent complexity and will trace the science of emergence starting with fundamental physics, through the biological sciences, and on to the emergence of consciousness and religion. He will then explore five models of religious belief that grow out of the new science, focusing on the new theologies of an emergent God.
Cost for Friday’s lecture is $15 general admission and $5 students. The workshop costs $50 general admission and $15 students and includes a vegetarian lunch. Tickets can be purchased by calling 503.478.1218 or online: www.center-for-spiritual-development.org
Philip Clayton holds a PhD in both philosophy and religious studies from Yale University and is the Ingraham Professor of Theology at Claremont School of Theology. Clayton is author of numerous books and articles including: All That Is: A Naturalistic Faith for the 21st Century, Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness, The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion, and The Problem of God in Modern Thought. He is a past winner of the Templeton Book Prize for best monograph in the field of science and religion, and a winner of the first annual Templeton Research Prize.
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