A new speaker series is scheduled to begin on campus next month.
Emmanuel Falque, a French philosopher and theologian, will be the first of The Philosophy Speakers Series co-sponsored and funded by the philosophy department and the Wimberly School of Religion.
Falque is dean of the Faculté de Philosophie at the Institut Catholique de Paris. His research focuses on philosophical questions in Christian theology. Through his research, he uses philosophy to shed new light on traditional theological questions.
He is an author and is one of the leading scholars in the philosophy of religion, but his work is just being translated to English, so he is not as well known in the United States.
Dr. Scott Davidson, associate professor of philosophy, translated the lecture.
“It is just a series in the sense that it is something that we hope do on a regular basis,” Davidson said. “We are lucky to get him before he gets too famous.”
The lecture is entitled “Is There Flesh Without the Body?” and addresses the paradox of the incarnation of Christ.
Falque will take problems in theology and show how there are philosophical puzzles in theology to highlight philosophical puzzles and explain how they can illuminate everyday life and how it relates to our own embodiment.
There will be two sections. The first will be an informal discussion and lunch at noon March 1. The second will be a more formal lecture and reception at 7 p.m. that evening. Both sections will be in Room 151 in Walker Center for Arts and Sciences. Both sections are free and open to the campus community.
“It’s cool that he’s coming to speak on that topic,” said Hannah Lampi, religion senior. “Speaking from experience, Christians don’t get enough opportunity to face theological challenges, so I would definitely want to go and listen to a theologian speak.”
There will be one speaker each semester, but none have been finalized.
Contributing: Web Editor Maleyia Vaughn
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