Griset Lecturer 2016: Keith Ward Public Lecture on Feb. 29

The Religious Studies Department
is very pleased to have British theologian, philosopher, and priest in the Church of England,
Keith Ward
, as this year’s
Griset Lecturer in Christian Ethics.
Professor Ward is a fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Regius Professor of Divinity at Christ Church, Oxford University.  He has written extensively on science and religion and on comparative theology and ethics, having published more than 40 books and delivered distinguished lectures around the world, and is regularly interviewed on the BBC.

Please join us for a special evening with Professor Ward on Monday, February 29, 2016 at 7 p.m. in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel where he will deliver a lecture entitled “
Christ and the Cosmos
.”

Drawing on the resources of Indian religious thought and Western Idealism, this lecture will seek to provide a new and illuminating way for Christians to see Christ in the light of new scientific knowledge about the size and age of the cosmos.

This event is free and open to the public.