Faith & Secularism in Christian Belief

31st October 2012 at 6:15 pm

Professor Keith Ward
(Professorial Research Fellow Heythrop College, formerly Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford)

Some recent writers on religion have adopted a sharply oppositional stance, as though secular (which they think entails scientific) beliefs are rational, while religious beliefs are irrational and immoral. On the other hand, 'spirituality' is officially on the curriculum of English State schools, and is often taken as a substitute for religion. This lecture by a distinguished theologian, philosopher and apologist, sought to counter these oppositional definitions. It argued instead for the irrationality of a purely science-based belief system, and for the importance of cultivating a spirituality which can unite scientific, moral, liberal, and humane attitudes, and in which faith and critical enquiry overlap and complement one another.

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