George Ellis
George Ellis is a leading world theorist in cosmology and mathematics, and has co-authored with physicist Stephen Hawking. An award-winning Professor Emeritus and an active Quaker, Ellis is also winner of the 2004 Templeton Prize, was awarded the Order of the Star of South Africa by Nelson Mandela, and is a Fellow of the British Royal Society.
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Faith, Hope & Doubt in Times of Uncertainty: Backhouse Lecture 2008
$8.00 (GST-inc)Given contemporary attacks on religious faith, this lecture asks what are the intellectual resources and sources of spirituality that can sustain us in these times of uncertainty?
It suggests that human moral life is a search to understand and implement that true nature of morality. It is centred in love, with the idea of kenosis playing a key role because of its transformational qualities.
