Date/Time
Date(s) - February 4, 2025 - February 6, 2025
All Day
Location
Regent College Chapel
Categories No Categories
February 4–6, 2025
Featured Speaker: Janet Martin Soskice
Lecture 1: Have We Forgotten God, the Creator?
Lecture 2: What Is It to Be Creatures? Challenges to the Christian Doctrine of Creation in Our Time
Lecture 3: Christ and Creation: Or, How to Believe in the Resurrection
Dr. Janet Martin Soskice is William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School and Professor Emerita of Philosophical Theology at the University of Cambridge. She is also a Regent College alumna (DipCS, ’77).
Throughout her career, she has been particularly interested in questions of method and the Doctrine of God: religious language, metaphysics and epistemology, narrative and genre, doctrine of creation, women and religion, beauty and Western art, science and religion, and theological writing.
The Laing Lectures began at Regent College in 1999 in cooperation with Roger and Carol Laing and in honour of their father, William John Laing. The purpose of the lectures is to encourage persons recognized for scholarship, wisdom, and creativity to undertake serious thought and original writing on an issue of significance for the Christian church and to promote the sharing of such thoughts through a series of public lectures.
The material presented by Laing Lecturers is intended to move beyond an analysis of historic and current concerns to provide proposals for alternative action for the Christian church. In doing so, lecturers are invited to explore in an interdisciplinary way the relationship between Christianity and culture, and to suggest ways in which that relationship might lead to greater flourishing of the church, the larger human household, and the whole community of creation.
https://www.regent-college.edu/lifelong-learning/laing-lectures