ACT Seminar Imago Dei WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN, MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD Sep 08 – Oct 06, 2013 3.00pm-6.00pm Registration: $750 This seminar will consider the historical, philosophical, scientific and theological accounts of the imago Dei. An interdisciplinary quest in search of Adam in the age of information draws together the latest thinking about who and what we are in the context of an evolving universe of conscious beings. It involves the exegesis and hermeneutics of notions about creation and origins, emergence of the imago Dei, freedom, sin and guilt, spiritual & biological deaths. 1. Sep 08: History and philosophy of theological anthropology (The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science) 2. Sep 15: Science of human origins (Masters of the Planet) 3. Sep 22: Theology of biblical anthropology (The Liberating Image) 4. Sep 29: An interdisciplinary account of what it means to be human (Alone in the World?) 5. Oct 06: Implications for the Church’s understanding of what it means to be uniquely human. Mandatory Assignments: You will read selections from the four books on the history and philosophy of science, theology, paleoanthropology, and biblical theology. A single-page review written assignment is to be submitted 24 hours before each of the first 4 sessions. Bibliography Required Readings (Please acquire all four books as soon as you can, preferably legally) 1. Peter Harrison, The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science, Cambridge, 2007 (A history of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge) 2. J. Richard Middleton, The Liberating Image, Brazos, 2005 (Interpretations of the term Image of God in Genesis 1 through the ages) 3. Ian Tattersall, Masters of the Planet, Macmillan, 2012 (The scientific quest for our human origins) 4. J Wentzel Van Huyssteen, Alone in the World?, Eerdmans, 2006 (Human uniqueness in science and theology)
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