Audio from COSAC 2011 is now available:
 

Nancey Murphy - What is Disenchantment? How Did It Happen? Why Does It Matter? - Talk (35Mb) & Question/Answer (32Mb)  
 

Nancey Murphy - A Post-Enchantment Program for Relating Science to Faith - Talk (37Mb) & Question/Answer (21Mb) 
 

Denis Alexander - Biology, Ideology and Faith - Talk (47Mb) & Question/Answer (14Mb)  
 

John Harrower - “Keeping On” (COSAC Devotion #1) - Talk 1 (10Mb) & Link to Article
 

John Harrower - “Humility Before The Facts” (COSAC Devotion #2) - Talk 2 (18Mb) & Link to Article
 

John Harrower - “Loyalty and Accountability” (COSAC Devotion #3) - Talk 3 (16Mb) & Link to Article
 

John Harrower - “Being Sure of Our Ground” (COSAC Devotion #4) - Talk 4 (12Mb) & Link to Article

Papers from COSAC 2011:

 C20th Disenchantment, Convergence and Re-Enchantment - Richard Prideaux

What is Disenchantment? How Did It Happen? Why Does It Matter?  - Nancey Murphy

A Post-Enchantment Program for Relating Science to Faith - Nancey Murphy

Conference On Science And Christianity

Date: 26-28 August 2011

Venue: Aspect Tamar Valley Resort, 7 Waldhorn Drive, Grindelwald, Tas 7277 (near Launceston) 

Keynote presenter: Nancey Murphy

Topic: Disenchantment: Faith and Science in a Secular World 

From the time of the Enlightenment, Western society has become progressively disenchanted, as a sense of the transcendent and of spiritual forces, which pervaded mediaeval life, was lost, even repudiated. Modern science was part of the cause and is now, in its reductionist form, a result of this process. Paradoxically, in this secular age, there is a new “disenchantment” with such science: post-modern skepticism. Are we now disenchanted with disenchantment? How do Christians who are scientists speak into this world?

About our presenter:

Nancey Murphy is Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA. She received the B.A. from Creighton University (philosophy and psychology) in 1973, the Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley (philosophy of science) in 1980, and the Th.D. from the Graduate Theological Union (theology) in 1987.

Her first book, Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning (Cornell, 1990) won the American Academy of Religion award for excellence. She is author of nine other books, including Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical Perspectives on Science, Religion, and Ethics (Westview, 1997); and On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics (with G.F.R Ellis, Fortress, 1996). Her most recent books are Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? (Cambridge, 2006); and (co-authored with Warren Brown) Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will (Oxford, 2007)

She has co-edited eleven volumes, including (with L. Schultz and R.J. Russell, Brill 2009) Philosophy, Science, and Divine Action; (with G.F.R. Ellis and T. O’Connor, Springer, 2009) Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will, Springer; and (with W. R. Stoeger, Oxford, 2007) Evolution and Emergence: Systems, Organisms, Persons.

Her research interests focus on the role of modern and postmodern philosophy in shaping Christian theology, on relations between theology and science, and on relations among philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and Christian anthropology.

To read more about Nancey click here.