We will be exploring the basic ideas found in J. L. Schellenberg's important recent book Evolutionary Religion published by Oxford University Press who say:
Though most concerned simply to get a new discussion going, Evolutionary Religion maintains that the answer is in each case 'yes'. When the light of deep time has fully been switched on, a new form of skepticism but, at the same time, new possibilities of religious life will come into view. We will find ourselves drawn to religious attitudes that, while not foregoing the idea of a transcendent ultimate, manage to do without believing and without details. As Schellenberg reveals, pursuing evolutionary religion instead of embracing a scientific naturalism is something that can rationally be done, even if traditional religious belief is placed out of bounds by argument. And ironically it is science that should help us see this. Indeed, in a new cultural dispensation evolutionary religion may come to be a preferred option among those most concerned for our intellectual enrichment and for our survival into the deep future.
John Schellenberg's own website contains a series of filmed interviews that people may wish to explore before coming to the meeting. Click here to go there.
Contact details:
Revd Andrew Brown
http://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/
http://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/
http://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/
Minister
Memorial Church (Unitarian)
Emmanuel Road
Cambridge
CB1 1JW
01223 576952
07950 184421
Minister
Memorial Church (Unitarian)
Emmanuel Road
Cambridge
CB1 1JW
01223 576952
07950 184421