Three Most Significant Features
of God, Physics and the Human Prospect:
This course will explore the deeper dialogue between Science and Theology
rather than concentrating on what are perceived as areas of controversy
between Science and Theology . A central motivation for this exploration
are the questions:
How can Science and Theology engage in a conversation
of mutual understanding and transformation?
How, or in what ways, has
science changed our ideas about what it means to be human? and
Given
these changes, how then ought we to live our lives? To accomplish this
end Physics, Theology and Sociology have been chosen as vehicles that will
draw together senior students from each of the 3 divisions of The King's
University College. Our intent will be to focus on the positive benefits
that each of these disciplines can bring to bear on understanding our human
modes of knowing and being in the cosmos.
God, Physics and the Human Prospect will be deliberately cross-disciplinary
and will be populated by students in their senior years of either Humanities,
Social Science or Natural Science degree programs. As well, the course
will be jointly developed and team taught by professors from each of the
above named divisions.
The course will enable students to appreciate and understand better
the language and culture of the scientific enterprise and how this is manifested
in the various disciplines of study. It will foster a discussion of how
Scientific, Theological and Sociological perspectives must inform one another
in order to present a more complete picture of our place in the contemporary
world.