Wycliffe College

The Toronto Christian Scholar Symposium is an annual gathering of interdisciplinary scholars of the Christian faith. We aim to foster a community of evangelical academics to reflect on ways to integrate faith and the academy. Through these annual meetings, we provide an avenue for conversations where practical and theoretical issues of expressing faith in research and teaching may be meaningfully explored. Seeing both opportunities and challenges in an increasingly secular academy, we hope to encourage scholars to creatively and authentically demonstrate their Christian faith in all academic disciplines for the service of Christ.

Our gathering features a speaker in a particular academic discipline to deliver a keynote address, which is followed by working groups and a forum on critical issues with interdisciplinary faculty. We invite graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and anyone who is active in the academy to join us for this unique meeting of warm fellowship and deeply engaging intellectual exchange.

The event took place on January 25-26, 2018 and featured William Lane Craig.

Quodlibeta was a practice in the medieval university where students could bring any question they wished to their professors. We are excited at the opportunity to ask three well-respected scholars questions on faith, culture, science and philosophy.

This is a FREE event. No ticket purchase or registration required.

About the Speakers:

WILLIAM LANE CRAIG

Dr. Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Biola University and Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University. He and his wife Jan have two grown children. At the age of sixteen as a junior in high school, he first heard the message of the Christian gospel and yielded his life to Christ. Dr. Craig pursued his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College (BA, 1971) and graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (MA, Philosophy, 1974; MA, Church History, 1975), the University of Birmingham (England) (PhD, Philosophy, Dissertation on the Kalam Cosmological Argument, 1977), and the University of Munich (Germany) (DTheol, Dissertation on the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus, 1984). From 1980-86 he taught Philosophy of Religion at Trinity, during which time he and Jan started their family. In 1987 they moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Dr. Craig pursued research at the University of Louvain until assuming his position at Biola University in 1994.

BARTH NETTERFIELD

Dr. Netterfield (PhD, Princeton) is a Canadian astrophysicist and a Professor in the Department of Astronomy and the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto. He is a leading expert in the development of balloon-borne telescopes. These are astrophysical experiments that are lifted into the stratosphere by high-altitude balloons where they conduct observations that would be hindered by atmospheric interference if done on the ground. Netterfield is primarily known for his work in observational cosmology, specifically in developing instrumentation to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation.

MARION TAYLOR

Dr. Taylor grew up in Toronto. Questions about how to negotiate the worlds of her faith and the academic study of the Bible pushed her to pursue an MA in Near Eastern Studies and a Master of Divinity degree from the University of Toronto. Ultimately her journey took her to Yale University where she received a MPhil, a Masters of Sacred Theology (STM), and a PhD. Under the direction of Professor Dr. Brevard Childs, she wrote her doctoral thesis on the history of Old Testament studies as they developed at Princeton Seminary from 1812 to 1929. She is currently Professor of Old Testament at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.

A discussion and Q and A with Ewan Goligher, Chris Barrigar, Paul Franks, and David Kupp.

Wycliffe Faculty Sermon by Marion Taylor on Revelation 4. Thursday, Jan 25, 2018 in Founders' Chapel, Wycliffe College, Toronto. For more information about the Sermon Series, visit: https://www.wycliffecollege.ca/about/news-media/media/sermon-series-apocalypse

Revelation Chapter 3 - Sermon by Terry Donaldson on Thursday, 18 Jan, 2018 at Wycliffe College.

For more information on this Wycliffe Faculty Sermon Series, visit https://www.wycliffecollege.ca/about/news-media/media/sermon-series-apocalypse

Wycliffe Faculty Sermon by Joseph Mangina on Revelation 1. Thursday, Jan 11, 2018 in Founders' Chapel, Wycliffe College, Toronto. For more information about the Sermon Series, visit: https://www.wycliffecollege.ca/about/news-media/media/sermon-series-apocalypse

1 Peter 2:4-10

Psalm 50: 16-23

Psalm 1:1-3

Nov 23 2017

Passages: 2 Thess 2:3, Daniel 7:8

Date: Nov 16, 2017