The Christian Faith and Modern Science: Understanding and Correcting Models of Conflict | Prof. Christopher Baglow

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This lecture was given on September 26th, 2024, at Brown University.

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About the Speaker:

Dr. Baglow is Professor of the Practice of Theology and the Director of the Science and Religion Initiative of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. His work is the culmination of 19 years of faith and science scholarship and educational program creation, as well as a lengthy career in Catholic theological education spanning high-school, undergraduate, graduate and seminary teaching. For this work, he was co-recipient of an Expanded Reason Award in Teaching from the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Madrid) and the Vatican Joseph Ratzinger Foundation (Rome).

Baglow is the author of Faith, Science and Reason: Theology on the Cutting Edge (2nd edition, Midwest Theological Forum, 2019) and Creation: A Catholic’s Guide to God and the Universe (Ave Maria Press, 2021). He serves as theological advisor to the Board of Directors of the Society of Catholic Scientists and as a contributor to the JTF-funded science and religion programming of the Word on Fire Institute. Most recently, he authored the transcripts for Wonder: The Harmony of Faith and Science, a Word on Fire film series directed by Manny Marquez and narrated by Jonathan Roumie. His work has appeared in That Man is You, Crux, Church Life Journal, Culture and Evangelization, and Joie de Vivre Quarterly Journal.

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1:00.9	And that topic is the conflict model of science and religion, right?
1:06.2	Specifically, the idea that scientific inquiry and Christian faith or religion more generally,
1:14.6	and oftentimes, as we'll see, Catholicism in particular, are intractably opposed to each other,
1:21.7	that they are in warfare, and that the weight of historical evidence supports that characterization.
1:28.6	So the conflict thesis is primarily an historical thesis.
1:32.6	It's a thesis about what that history looks like.
1:35.4	And according to this way of thinking,
1:37.0	there's no real possibility of harmony between them
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