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Michael Welker, Senior Professor at the University of Heidelberg and Director of FIIT, delivers the Gifford Lecture "Called to Truth". It is the fifth lecture in the series " In God’s Image: Anthropology".
Lecture abstract: An understanding of the liberating potential inhering in the search for truth requires that we consider not only its cognitive and ethical dimensions but also its religious manifestations. The latter necessitate a critical look at distortions, such as the influential metaphysical and subjectivist conceptions of God that are largely responsible for people having turned away from faith. Critiques of religion (Marx, Nietzsche, Bonhoeffer) also disclose how such distortions promote reductionistic conceptions of human beings.
Find out more about this Gifford lecture series: https://edin.ac/2MOPHgu
Michael Welker, Senior Professor at the University of Heidelberg and Director of FIIT, delivers the Gifford Lecture "Called to Truth". It is the fifth lecture in the series " In God’s Image: Anthropology".
Lecture abstract: An understanding of the liberating potential inhering in the search for truth requires that we consider not only its cognitive and ethical dimensions but also its religious manifestations. The latter necessitate a critical look at distortions, such as the influential metaphysical and subjectivist conceptions of God that are largely responsible for people having turned away from faith. Critiques of religion (Marx, Nietzsche, Bonhoeffer) also disclose how such distortions promote reductionistic conceptions of human beings.
Find out more about this Gifford lecture series: https://edin.ac/2MOPHgu
