The Epic of Creation: Scientific, Biblical, and Theological Perspectives on Our Origins
ZCRS Lectures at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1100 E 55th Street, Chicago, IL 60615
I. The Scientific Story of Creation
The Creation of Matter and Our Physical Environment
September 10 (7:00 PM) The Origin of It All [Edward Kolb, cosmology, UC]
September 10 (8:30 PM) The Story of Creation from Hydrogen to the Earth [Donald York, astrophysics, UC]
September 17 (7:00 PM) The Ongoing Creation of Stars, Planets, and
Possibly, Life [Grace Wolf-Chase, astrophysics, Adler/UC]
The Creation of Life and Our Biological Environment
September 17 (8:30 PM) The Origin of Life [Tatjana Paunesku, radiology, NU]
September 24 (7:00 PM) The Origin of Multicellular Life [Gayle Woloschak, molecular biology, NU/ZCRS]
September 24 (8:30 PM) Biological Evolution from the Cambrian Explosion
to the Appearance of Higher Primates [James Hopson, biology, UC (emeritus)]
The Creation of Humans and Our Cultural Environment
October 1 (7:00 PM) From Miocene Apes to Modern Humans, Part 1: The
Emergence and Early Evolution of Humans
October 1 (7:00 PM) [Fred Smith, anthropology,
LUC]
October 1 (8:30 PM) Brain Evolution [Philip Ulinski, neurobiology, UC]
October 8 (7:00 PM) Precursors of Human Behavior and Culture as Revealed
by Studies of Primates
October 8 (7:00 PM) [Paul Heltne, primatology,
CHN]
October 8 (8:30 PM) The Evolution of Culture and the Capacity for Culture
in the Human Descent Line
October 8 (8:30 PM) [William Irons, anthropology,
NU]
II. The Biblical Story of Creation
The Old Testament Story
October 15 (7:00 PM) The Ancient Near-Eastern Context for Hebrew Ideas of Creation [Bernard Batto, religion, DU]
October 15 (8:30 PM) Old Testament Views of the World's Beginnings [Theodore Hiebert, Old Testament, MTS]
October 22 (7:00 PM) Creation and Wisdom (Proverbs and Psalms) [Esther Menn, Old Testament, LSTC]
October 22 (8:30 PM) Universe Story/ies and Christian Theology: Some
Hermeneutical Reflections
October 22 (8:30 PM) [J. Matt Ashley,
theology, UND]
The New Testament Story
October 29 (7:00 PM) The Greco-Roman Context for New Testament Ideas
of Cosmogony and Cosmography
October 29 (7:00 PM) [Edgar Krentz, New
testament, LSTC (emeritus)]
October 29 (8:30 PM) The New Testament on Creation [Edgar Krentz]
November 5 (7:00 PM) New Testament Views of Creation [Robert Brawley,
New Testament, MTS]
III. Theological Reflections
November 5 (8:30 PM) Social Dimension of the Epic [Richard Busse, theology, ZCRS]
November 12 (7:00 PM) Reconstructing a Christian Theology of Nature:
Prerequisites and False Starts
November 12 (7:00 PM) [Anna
Case-Winters, theology, MTS]
November 12 (8:30 PM) Creation and Salvation [Karl Peters, religion and philosophy, RC (emeritus)/ZCRS]
November 19 No lectures: Thanksgiving Recess
November 26 (7:00 PM) Social and Cultural Responses to Evolution [Barbara Strassberg, sociology, AU]
November 26 (8:30 PM) The Epic of Creation and Interfaith Dialogue
[James Moore, theology, VU/ZCRS]
IV Epilogue
December 3 (7:00 PM) The Epic of Creation—What Does It Mean? [Philip
Hefner, theology, ZCRS/LSTC (emeritus)]
December 3 (8:30 PM) Panel
Institutional affiliations are: Adler, Adler Planetarium; AU, Aurora University; CHN, Center for Humans and Nature; DU, DePauw University; LSTC, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; LUC, Loyola University of Chicago; MTS, McCormick Theological Seminary; NU, Northwestern University; RC, Rollins College; UC, University of Chicago; UND, University of Notre Dame; VU, Valparaiso University; ZCRS, Zygon Center for Religion and Science.
For more information contact the Zygon Center for Religion and Science at 773-256-0670/0767;
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