公義 vs.復和: 紛亂時代的人際關係

The Character of Leadership is a collaboration between HKU Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU Faith and Global Engagement, The Oxford Global Leadership Initiative, and The Oxford Character Project, sponsored by Templeton World Charity Foundation.

Synopsis How ‘western’ is Christianity? This joint lecture explores Chinese contributions to Christian thought, and how Chinese viewpoints on the human may change and challenge traditional ideas inherited from the West.  Peng Yin probes the difference Chinese philosophy makes for a Christian understanding of human nature.  He diagnoses three flawed European imageries of China, and identifies their…

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…

Many social enterprises are motivated by faith-based agents. The forum explores the relationship between religious beliefs and social enterprise.  Participants:  Dr Michael Hodson is a PhD economist and was formerly senior economist at the UK Government’s Radio Telecommunications Agency and also headed up the government’s business enterprise programme reform. Runs his own firm and worked as…

In this video, Prof. Paul Williams from Regent College UBC speaks to HKU students, staff, alumni and the public on the role of Christian faith in a secular society.  Paul Williams is the Executive Director of the Marketplace Institute and the David J. Brown Family Chair of Marketplace Theology and Leadership at Regent College. He…

All scientists know that they are expected to maintain the highest ethical standards in their research, and discoveries are continually being made that require considerable ethical reflection with respect to their application. But is science itself an intrinsically positive enterprise from an ethical perspective? And which ethical principles should we prioritise in the applications of…