30
Nov
November 2020
30
Nov
Webinar – Now Cracks a Noble Heart: What’s Wrong with Humans? (Humanity Matters Series, 7 of 8)
Every major worldview has to explain human brokenness in some way. This webinar examines the various accounts offered today and asks whether they hold up under investigation. ...
26
Nov
Webinar – Eternity in our Hearts: the Human Relationship to Time (Humanity Matters Series, 6 of 8)
'What is time?', asked St Augustine. 'If no one asks me I know, but if I wish to explain it, I know not'. To be human is to have a consciousness of time, including a sense of our mortality. Andrew Fellows examines what it is to live in time as a way of further understanding our uniqueness as human beings. ...
16
Nov
Webinar – These Restless Hearts: Humans as Fundamentally Desiring (Humanity Matters Series, 5 of 8)
In this session, we ask what our longings mean: where do they come from, and where do they move us? Our desires, though frequently misdirected and incomplete, provide the essential key to understanding ourselves. ...
08
Nov
Webinar – Minding the World: Humans as Knowledge Seekers (Humanity Matters Series, 4 of 8)
Blaise Pascal wrote that 'man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed'. So, how is it that we know and how do we know that we know? This webinar examines how humans apprehend the world, and the light this sheds on who we are. ...
01
Nov
Webinar – What a Piece of Work is Man: A View from the Outside (Humanity Matters Series, 3 of 8)
The sheer range of human capacities is astonishing, even awe-inspiring. How do we account for them all? Today, we are used to explaining human talents reductively, boiling them down quickly to something more basic. This session beats a path towards an understanding of our humanity which elevates us, even as it grounds us in created reality. ...