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Session 1 - Can Science Explain Everything?

6 Lessons

Part 1: An Overview

Part 2: The limitations of science

Part 3: Are faith & science in conflict?

Part 4: What about the Big Bang theory?

Part 5: Can we take the Bible seriously?

Part 6: The problem of suffering

Session 2 - Why Climate Change Matters

7 Lessons

Part 1: An Overview

Part 2: A Christian vision for the world

Part 3: Climate change matters for the sake of the world

Part 4: Climate change matters for the sake of people living in poverty

Part 5: Climate change matters for our own sake

Part 6: Climate change matters for God’s sake

Part 7: What do we do (about climate change).

Session 3 - Am I Just My Brain?

5 Lessons

Part 1: An Overview

Part 2: I am just my brain – a popular scientific view

Part 3: What about the mind? How does this relate to the brain?

Part 4: Material and immaterial realms

Part 5: Why can we think? Why is there consciousness?

Session 4 - Spirituality And Mental Health

9 Lessons

Part 1: An Overview

Part 2: Spirituality – What is it? What does it do?

Part 3: The concept of relational consciousness

Part 4: Organisational mental health – (an optional digression)

Part 5: The implications of relational consciousness

Part 6: Thick and thin descriptions of mental health challenges

Part 7: Asking phenomenological questions about technological practices

Part 8: Identity

Part 9: Healing through friendship

Session 5 - Making Sense Of Identity In The 21st Century World

5 Lessons

Part 1: An Overview

Part 2: Obsessed with ourselves

Part 3: A changed understanding of identity

Part 4: How is this project going?

Part 5: A Christian understanding of identity

Session 6 - Do Scientists Have The Right To Change Our Genes?

6 Lessons

Part 1: An Overview

Part 2: Is there hope of a cure for genetic disorders

Part 3: Some questions that arise from human genome editing

Part 4: How much power does our DNA have over our lives

Part 5: Improving the human stock – genetic enhancement and eugenics

Part 6: Made in the image of God

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Session 5 - Making Sense Of Identity In The 21st Century World

Part 2: Obsessed with ourselves

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To what extent do you recognise Glynn Harrison’s analysis of how we identify ourselves in our modern society?
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The talks included on this website were part of the Christian apologetics series ‘Science and faith in the Second City’. The project was funded by a Scientists in Congregations grant from ECLAS, in Durham, and organised by ChaplaincyPlus.

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