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SMU Religious Studies Public Lecture

The Department for the Study of Religion at Saint Mary’s University is hosting a public lecture on Monday, February 10 title: The Ambiguity of Natural Science: Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Bernard Lonergan on God and Causation.  The guest speaker is Jonathan Heaps, PhD., Director of the Bernard J. Lonergan Institute at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.  A description of the talk is below:

For the ‘classical ideal of science’ God’s significance for the cosmos is straightforward: that necessary cause to which all contingent causes are reduced. With the advent of the modern, empirical ideal of science, the significance of God suffers an ambiguity. On the one hand, modern science does not engage in reduction to the universal and necessary, but aims at complete explanation. Thus, it should raise the question of God. On the other, there are no data on God, so there can be no empirical science of God. How , then, should we characterize the relationship of God to modern scientific knowledge?

When: Monday, February 10, 2025
Time: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Where: Sobey Building, 903 Robie St, Halifax -  Room #255

All are welcome.

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