Professor Karla Pollmann, Head of the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies, will give a lecture at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion in Cambridge on Tuesday 6 October, entitled ‘How Did Augustine’s Thought Shape a Scientific World-View?’
The Faraday Institute is an interdisciplinary research enterprise based at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. In addition to academic research, the Institute engages in the public understanding of science and religion.
Karla’s talk is based on her work on Augustine’s interpretation of the Book of Genesis and on his thoughts about academic disciplines in general, as outlined in her works Augustine and the Disciplines, ed. with Mark Vassey (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Entre la ciencia y la salvacion: La interpretacion del Genesis en San Augustin (Fliedner Ediciones, 2013). She will argue that Augustine’s notion of the complementarity of the sciences and faith, his insistence on the validity of some scientific thought as opposed to an unsophisticated understanding of the Bible, as well as his awareness that the sciences cannot monopolise the generation of a comprehensive view of reality, deserve modern attention.
Full details of the talk can be found at:
www.faraday.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/Seminars.php