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The Philosophy Department at Calvin College and The Society of Christian Philosophers (SCP) announce a major, three-year initiative for Chinese scholars to reflect on the relationship between science, philosophy and belief. This initiative, which receives major support from the John Templeton Foundation, will include a variety of projects:
An intensive four-week seminar at Calvin College from June 23 - July 18 in the summer of 2008 for
selected Chinese scholars and graduate students, in conversation with some of the leading
Western experts in this field. Learn more about the seminar.
Sir John Polkinghorne
Cambridge University
7:30 p.m. Thursday June 26
“Can a Scientist Believe in a
Destiny Beyond Death?”
Calvin Theological
Seminary Chapel
Dr. Alvin Plantinga
University of Notre Dame
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 2
“Science and Religion:
Why Does the Debate Continue?”
Calvin Theological
Seminary Chapel
Owen Gingerich
Harvard University
7:30 p.m Wednesday July 9
“The Divine Handiwork:
Evolution and the Wonder of Life”
Gezon Auditorium
Richard Swinburne
Oxford University
7:30 p.m. Wednesday July 16
“God and Morality”
Gezon Auditorium
MP3 Downloads of the lectures »
A major academic conference at a Chinese university in the summer
of 2009, at which the seminar participants present papers they have
prepared, alongside SCP members.
A volume of essays drawn from the conference, published by a
Chinese university press.
A three-year series of lectures and seminars in China taught by visiting
SCP scholars. Read further for information regarding the Fudan and Tsinghua seminars in Summer 07.
Two visiting fellowship programs, one for junior faculty and one for graduate students. Graduate student fellows will be hosted for a year of study at Baylor University, University of Notre Dame, Calvin College, and Hope College; while junior faculty fellows will be hosted for a year at Notre Dame,
Baylor and Calvin.
A program of book distribution for Chinese seminar participants and
universities hosting SCP programs.
Kelly James Clark, Ph.D., Project Director. Clark, Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College and Executive Director of SCP, has been a principal organizer, coordinator, and fund-raiser for many ventures in China. An accomplished philosopher
with a focused interest on epistemology and Chinese philosophy, his
is the author, editor, or co-author of more than ten books and author
of over forty articles; his books include Return to Reason, The Story of Ethics, and 101 Key Philosophical Terms of Their Importance for Theology. Professor Clark has hosted and mentored
twelve Chinese graduate students at Calvin College, arranged for
thousands of books to be shipped to Chinese universities, organized
and participated in SCP conferences in China, lectured and taught
mini-courses in Chinese universities, helped other colleges set up
China exchange programs, and had one of his treatises, Return to Reason, translated and
republished by Peking University Press. Currently Clark is developing
a reexamination of the metaphysics of Confucius.
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