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The QU4RTETS presents four sets of paintings by Makoto Fujimura and Bruce Herman, as part of an ongoing artistic collaboration in word, image and music, with composer Christopher Theofanidis and theologian Jeremy Begbie inspired by T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. As a rare instance of painting and poetry productively informing one another, the QU4RTETS paintings…
Christianity – The Chinese Way
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Radical Feminism, Radical Marxism, Radical Love: a Professor Encounters Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa (HKU’93 honorary doctorate Social Sciences), a Catholic nun who devoted her life to helping India’s poor, was arguably the most influential spiritual revolutionary of her time. Canonised by Pope Francis, the “saint of the gutters” served the poor of Calcutta and challenged religious thought of people the world over. Prof Mary Poplin (Claremont…
Slaves to our genes? Genes, Determinism and God
Denis Alexander provides an engaging approach to the question of what it means to be human. With insights from genetics, philosophy and theology, Alexander shows that contemporary science is a gift to natural theology and that theology and science can indeed learn from and support one another. About the talk The old, bad days of…
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