Winter Lectures 2020

Finding Meaning in Scripture and Science

Third installment of the 2020 Winter Lecture series hosted by NZCIS in conjunction with the Maclaurin Chapel. Finding Meaning in Scripture and Science with Sarah Beattie.

Finding Meaning in Disease

Second installment of the 2020 Winter Lecture series hosted by NZCIS in conjunction with the Maclaurin Chapel. Finding Meaning in Disease with Dr. Brian Broom.

Finding Meaning in History: The 1918 Pandemic

First installment of the 2020 Winter Lecture series hosted by NZCIS in conjunction with the Maclaurin Chapel. Finding Meaning in History: The 1918 Pandemic with Prof. Peter Lineham.

June 2020 Webinars

Are Animals Persons: Implications for Domestication and Farming

Dr. Celia Deane-Drummond, via video link from Oxford, UK

Dr.  Celia Deane-Drummond is now a senior research fellow and the inaugural director of Laudato Si’ ​Research Institute at ​Campion Hall, University ​of Oxford. She was formerly a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame where she served as the inaugural director of the Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing. Her research, writing, and teaching focus on constructive systematic theology informed by Roman Catholic contemporary and historical sources in its relationship with creation and the natural world as understood by the biological and human sciences. She has made distinguished contributions to the new discipline of ecotheology, reflecting her early interest in botany as well as her later concentration on Christian theological studies, and she also has written searchingly about the theological and ethical implications of new developments in genetics.

Webinar/Conversation co-hosted by NZCIS and The Center for Theology and Public Issues. Are animals persons? with Prof. Celia Deane-Drummond, Oxford.

Where’s God in a Pandemic?

Webinar/Conversation hosted by St Barnabas, Fendalton. Where’s God in a Pandemic? with Dr. Nicola Hoggard Creegan.

Scientific Engagement with a Theology of Human Flourishing

Webinar/Conversation hosted by NZCIS. Scientific Engagement with A Theology of Human Flourishing with Dr. Christa McKirland, Carey College.