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SOCIETY ON SCIENCE AND FAITH HOSTS TALKS MARCH 24 |
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March 03, 2009
GROVE CITY, Pa. – The Grove City College Society for Science, Faith and Technology will host experts in bioethics and theology for two presentations March 24 in the Recital Hall of the Pew Fine Arts Center on campus. The lectures are free and open to the public.
Dr. William J. Carl, president of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, will speak on “Brains, Bodies, Beliefs and Behavior” at 3:30 p.m. Dr. Stephen G. Post, director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics at Stony Brook University, will present “Better to Give Than to Receive? Gift-Love, Happiness and Health” at 7 p.m.
Carl, who is also professor of homiletics at the seminary, previously served as pastor of the 1,700-member First Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas, for 22 years. Carl graduated from the University of Tulsa with a bachelor’s degree in religion and philosophy. He earned his master of divinity from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and his doctorate of philosophy in rhetoric and communication from the University of Pittsburgh where he was also an instructor. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 1973. He has lectured extensively, including at Oxford, Princeton, Boston University, the Moscow Theological Academy, the Kerala United Theological Seminary in India, the Beijing Theological Seminary in China. He has published six books, including “The Lord’s Prayer For Today” and numerous scholarly articles and reviews.
Prior to his position with Stony Brook University, Post was professor of bioethics, philosophy and religion in the Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine from 1998 through 2008. He is president of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, which was founded in 2001 with a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to provide high-level scientific research on unselfish love. His work on love, spanning three decades, investigates unselfish love and altruism in the context of scientific research, philosophy, spirituality, religions, ethics, health and the professions. Post is co-editor of “Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Dialogue” and editor of “The Science of Altruism and Health: It’s Good to be Good,” published in 2005. Post received his Ph.D. in ethics from the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is a member of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion and is a preceptor in the Pritzker School of Medicine.
The Society for Science, Faith and Technology is part of the Local Societies Initiative of the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science.
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