Challenges to Conventional Notions of the Bible Why Knowledge and Ethics are Not Enough

Monday, February 8, 2010

4:30 – 6:00 p.m.

David Strong Bldg, Room C 103 (Map)

Free of Charge

Rikk Watts, PhD (Cambridge), Professor of New Testament Studies at Regent College, Vancouver, has taught at Gordon Conwell (Boston) and Wycliffe Hall (Oxford).

Western philosophy and science, with all their undeniable benefits, have not provided a lasting basis for human meaning.  A possible reason is that neither has taken seriously enough the ontological priority of history (Croce).  Virtue and knowledge, as ends in themselves, fail to grasp the true nature of either humanity or reality.

This  event is sponsored by the Baptist Chaplaincy, part of University of Victoria Interfaith Services.  For more information email Ms. Angela Wood the Baptist Chaplain at baptist@uvic.ca.