The Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University is pleased to invite you to a public lecture to be given by IRCI Professorial Fellow Sarah Coakley. The topic is, Evolution, cooperation and the question of God -Is there a future for “natural theology”? . This will be held at 6pm on Monday the 18th of February at Christ Lecture Theatre, ACU Melbourne.
Evolution, cooperation and the question of God
Is there a future for “natural theology”?
DATE AND TIME
Monday, 18 February, 2019
6.00pm with refreshments afterward
LOCATION
Christ Lecture Theatre,
Rm 404.G.12
115 Victoria Parade Fitzroy
ACU Melbourne campus
FURTHER DETAILS
David.Newheiser@acu.edu.au
For those interested, Professor Coakley has a paper this week on the ABC Religion and Ethics website here: https://www.abc.net.au/religion/evolution,-providence-and-the-trinity/10787616
Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity in the Divinity Faculty at Cambridge University from 2007-2018, Sarah Coakley was previously Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at Harvard University (1995-2007). From 2018-2020 she is Honorary Professor at St Andrews University, and from 2019 Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne and Rome). She is a Life Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, a member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Lund, St Andrews, Toronto (St Michael’s College), and London (Heythrop College). Sarah has led major research projects in theology and the biological concept of evolutionary cooperation, and has written extensively on Christian theology and feminism.