Religious Pluralism, Christ and the Cosmos

On Not Believing in the Social Trinity

Tuesday, May 16, 2017
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT
Location: New North Philosophy Conference Room (New North 204) Map

In Keith Ward’s book Christ and the Cosmos: A Reformulation of Trinitarian Doctrine (2015), he analyses theistic belief in a scientific context, working toward articulating a sense of the "cosmic Trinity" to help make theism more intelligible in the twenty-first century world.

At this event, Ward explicated differing and competing interpretations of the doctrine of the Trinity as he discussed why it still matters and how it fits into a scientific account of the universe. He addressed how such a doctrine can be articulated in a way that helps build understanding and bridges between Christians and believers from other faith traditions, and offered time for a discussion with the audience.

This event was co-sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, the Graduate Program in Religious Pluralism of Georgetown's Department of Theology, and the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network.

read | Christ and the Cosmos: Chapters One and Two
read | "Christian Attitudes to Non-Christian Belief Systems"

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About Keith Ward

Keith Ward is a British philosopher, theologian, priest, and scholar. He is a fellow of the British Academy, a priest of the Church of England, and was a canon of Christ Church, Oxford until 2003; he is currently a visiting professor at Virginia Theological Seminary. Serving as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 1991 to 2004, comparative theology and the relationship between science and religion are two of his main topics of interest. He is the author of numerous books including The Rule of Love (1989), Religion and Human Nature (1998), Why There Almost Certainly is a God (2008), and recently Christ and the Cosmos: A Reformulation of Trinitarian Doctrine (2015). In 1992, he delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow. He has also served as the Gersham Professor of Divinity at Gersham College, London from 2004 to 2008 and is on the council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

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