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The Veritas Forum
March 21-23, 2005 |
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Freedom is one of the few things that we as a society and individuals agree to be good. Whether political, intellectual or with respect to the use of our bodies, the promise of freedom’s benefits (and the threat of its loss) drives everything from grass-roots activism to federal legislation and judicial decisions. But agreement upon what freedom is is another matter altogether. What constitutes freedom? Do we recognize it when we see it? Do religious truth claims threaten freedom, or are they necessary for its full flourishing? What ought we to be free from and, as importantly, free for?
The Veritas Forum at UVa is a biennial lecture series intended to foster a public discussion of truth, goodness, beauty and human identity. The Veritas Forum is not sponsored by the University of Virginia, but by the group of organizations listed below. Click here to visit the Veritas organizational website and learn more about Forums on other college campuses.
All discussions are free and open to the university community.
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Veritas Audio Lectures
Download an MP3 file of the Audio Lectures below at no cost, or contact Debbie Rodriquez at debbie@studycenter.net to purchase a CD or cassette tape
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Where is Freedom in a Pluralistic Society?
Dick Keyes
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Are there Christian Foundations for Political Liberty?
Nicholas Wolterstorff
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Freedom and the Real Meaning of Sex
Frederica Mathewes-Green
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Monday, March 21, 8 – 9.30 pm, McLeod Hall
Where is Freedom in a Pluralistic Society?
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With the bewildering number of religious and non-religious claims about the world, we have the commendable desire to be free from intolerance and bigotry. Yet unless we know not only what to be free from but what to be free to, we can be left with an openness which is more like paralysis or disorientation than a positive freedom. Ironically, this openness can have its own unique style of bigotry. Do we have the freedom to take world view pluralism seriously?
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| Dick Keyes (B.A. Harvard University, M. Div. Westminster Seminary) is the director of L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, MA. He is the author of Beyond Identity, True Heroism, and Chameleon Christianity, as well as several book chapters in anthologies such as Finding God at Harvard and The New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics. He has lectured widely on the Christian faith and modern culture in the United States, Europe and Korea. |
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Tuesday, March 22, 8 – 9.30 pm, McLeod Hall
Are There Christian Foundations for Political Liberty?
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“Let freedom ring” is one of the deep themes of American history. It is often considered that this emphasis on political freedom began when European Christendom ended. But does the rise of liberty and justice represent a triumph of human reason over Christian thought? Or are there uniquely Christian grounds for promoting political liberty?
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Nicholas Wolterstorff (A.B. Calvin College, Ph.D. Harvard University) is the Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School. He is the author of Reason Within the Bounds of Religion, Until Justice and Peace Embrace, John Locke and Ethics of Belief, and several other books and articles on philosophy, aesthetics, religion and government. |
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Wednesday, March 23, 8 – 9.30 pm, McLeod Hall
Freedom and the Real Meaning of Sex
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Ads and entertainment tell us that sexual freedom is a sort of consumer freedom – sex is something to select, take home, consume and forget about. But sex is tangled up with deeper issues, and its real meaning has something to do with the profound human need to bond with another person in love and trust, and to forge a relationship that will last for a lifetime.
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Frederica Mathewes-Green is the author of Gender: Men, Women, Sex, Feminism and The Illumined Heart: The Ancient Christian Path of Transformation. She is a regular commentator on religion and public life for newspapers and magazines and is currently a columnist for National Review Online and Beliefnet.com. |
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Veritas at UVa is sponsored by Agape Christian Fellowship, Anglican College Ministry, aScend, Athletes in Action, Cavalier Life, Center for Christian Study, Chi Alpha, Grace Christian Fellowship, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, and Reformed University Fellowship.
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