The Lecture will examine the plausibility of this key concept of Judaic-Christian moral anthropology. Issues dealt with will include the belief that evil is a ‘privation’ rather than a real property, that it cannot intelligibly be viewed as innate, that it is less important since it is a ‘thin’ moral concept, that the moral accountability which it presupposes cannot span more than one life.
The human identity issues which arise in these discussions will also be explored; and the ways in which various conceptions of moral identity open up tensions between rational and revealed understandings of human nature, human weaknesses and the capacity of human beings to flourish.
3:00 pm Check in
3:30 pm Registration and Welcome
4:30 pm Session I
Chris Woznicki – ‘Are we free to pray?’
Ben Page – ‘How is God specially present in certain locations?’
6:00 pm Supper
7:30 pm Tyndale Lecture at Wolfson
Tuesday 25 June
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am Prayers
9:30 am Session II
Max Baker-Hytch – ‘Organic wholes and the problem of divine hiddenness’
Mike DeVito, Kegan Shaw and Tyler McNabb – ‘Proper Functionalism and Epistemological Disjunctivism: A Synergistic Proposal’
11:00 am Coffee
11:30 am Session III
Joseph Diekemper – ‘Technological enhancement of the human person and the imago Dei’
Phillip Kremers – ‘The Objection of Horrendous Deeds’
1:00 pm Lunch
4:00 pm Coffee
4:30 pm Session IV
David Worsley – ‘A Tale of Two Gardens’
Carl Hildebrand – ‘Weaknesses of Will: Some Philosophical Reflections on St Paul’s Body of Death’
6:00 pm Supper
7:30 pm Tyndale Lecture at Wolfson (Philosophy of Religion)
Henry Bunting – Prolegomena to a Christian Moral Anthropology
Wednesday 26 June
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am Prayers
9:30 am Session V
Yang Guo – ‘Mere Christianity: More or Less’
James Elliott – ‘Ecumenical Theology and the Epistemology of Disagreement’
11:00 am Coffee
11:30 am Session VI
Jamie Collin – ‘Eternity, Foreknowledge, and Petitionary Prayer for the Past’
Matt Hart – ‘On God’s Loving and Hating’
1:00 pm Lunch
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