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Related Activities at the University of Chicago

  • Text and Truth

    Text and Truth is a lunchtime faculty forum which was launched by Holy Trinity Church in the spring quarter 2007 in partnership with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship after a practice run during the winter quarter of that year. The forum features faculty from the University of Chicago and nearby institutions, who speak briefly on some aspect of their academic work as it relates to issues and ongoing tasks that are relevant to integrating Christian faith and the academic enterprise. In light of the nature of this community, the forum will of necessity be an ecumenical enterprise. In most cases the speakers will be Christians, but the forum will also welcome professors of all persuasions who are working on especially important issues of great interest to Christian students and scholars.

    Though this forum has been organized independently from the Redemption of Reason conference project, it will clearly provide an important ongoing supplement, allowing for more frequent interaction with faculty from all the disciplines on the task of redeeming reason. A different theme is featured each quarter, so that the entire range of the academic disciplines can be addressed over the course of several years.

    If Christians are ever to be adept at integrating their faith and their academic work, they must have practice in conversation and debate, exposure to different ideas and issues, and consideration of various approaches and hypotheses - in many fields, not only their own.

    • Links:
    • Text and Truth - at the Holy Trinity Church website.
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    • Winter Quarter 2010 - Theology of Creation in the Modern Research University
    • Poster - for the Winter Quarter 2010.
      Feel free to print out this poster and distrbute / put it up to advertise these discussiions.
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  • The Fish

    The Fish is a student-run magazine of Christian thought and opinion published at the University of Chicago. Originally conceived by Crystal Moy and Emily Capo in 2006, The Fish was founded by Emily and Bridget O'Kane in Spring 2007.

    • Links:
    • Website - with information and online issues.
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  • The Augustine Project

    Here you will find links to student run Christian magazines at major colleges and universities across the country. Most of them, like The Fish at the University of Chicago, are very new.

    • Links:
    • Website - with information and online issues.
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  • The Martin Marty Center for the Advance Study of Religion

    Located in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, the Center fosters wide ranging research on the connections between religion and other academic disciplines, as well as public life.

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  • The Lumen Christi In5stitute

    Lumen Christi was founded in 1997 by Roman Catholic scholars with the goal of fostering new efforts at connecting the Roman Catholic tradition with the academic enterprise. Their work is done mainly at the University of Chicago, but they also have conferences and meetings in other places.

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  • The Religion and Environment Initiative

    The Initiative is an interfaith community of students, scholars and others in the UofC neighborhood who are interested in issues concerning the protection of the environment.

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  • The Zygon Center for Religion and Science

    The Zygon Center for Religion and Science is located at the Lutheran School of Theology [LSTC] near the campus of the University of Chicago. They have a large program of seminars and lectures, many of them free and open to the public. Their website provides links to a number of other religion and science programs.

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