This talk focuses on the challenges and opportunities that face Christian graduates as they think through whether they are called to work in the academic work, and become "salt and light" by doing so.
List of recordings
Conference: 2010
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Alister McGrath
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Alister McGrathThis talk will look at the natural sciences, exploring the challenges and the opportunities that they present for faith.
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Edith ReitsemaEdith looks at abstract and relational knowledge, and asks how can we build a bridge to those around us, instead of remaining within towers of intellect. She considers the intellectual challenges of the day, and considers what relational bridge building looks like - historically and in the present.
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Edith ReitsemaEdith asks what is culture, how does it work, and how does it fit in with faith. She then considers three theologians' perspectives on this relationship, and looks at how we might respond to the issues.
Conference: 2009
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Joanna ColicuttThe academic enterprise and the pursuit of wisdom: biblical and psychological perspectives.This talk looks at the relationship between a theological and a psychological view of the world, before presenting a discussion on the nature of wisdom and what, if any, relation this has to the pursuit of academic study and research.
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Joanna ColicuttSeeing is believing: the psychology of perception and Christian faith.This talk takes a specific example of the use of academic psychology to help construct Christian theology and inform Christian spirituality.
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Jonathan ChaplinDon't just do something, sit there: Christian Faith and the point of Scholarship. Why Christian scholarship is not apologetics, evangelism, social action, or anything else.
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Jonathan ChaplinAn overview of how to approach any discipline from a Christian perspective, but with examples drawn from social sciences.
Conference: 2008
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Andrew Fellows
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Stefan Lindholm