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Psychology of Christian Faith 2020 基督信仰心理學2020
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Co-organized by:Faith and Global Engagement, HKUGeneral Education, HKU In the award-winning film The Theory of Everything, the young Stephen Hawking describes cosmology as a religion for intelligent atheists. The film then explores the theological implications of two cosmological models defended by Hawking. Do these models in fact have the implications which Hawking attributes to them, and…
