Upcoming MacLaurin Institute Events

For more information about the MacLaurin Institute and their programs,
go to: www.MacLaurin.org.

Monday, February 19, 2007
Symposium on Civic Engagement and Moral Education, speakers include Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff (Noah Porter Chair Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University), Dr. Richard Bernstein (Vera List Professor of Philosophy, New School University), and Dr. Mark Bauerlein, (Professor of English, Emory University and Director of Research and Analysis, National Endowment for the Arts), 2:30 p.m., Cowles Auditorium in the Humphrey Center; free and open to the public.

Friday, February 23, 2007
First Annual Faith and Human Rights Lecture, From Exile to Torture: The Global Scope of Religious Persecution, Dr. Paul Marshall, (Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, and at the Center for Religious Freedom, Freedom House, Washington, D.C. and author of Their Blood Cries Out), 7:00 p.m., Room 50, Law School; free and open to the public. Funding support was received from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Thursday, March 1, 2007
Third Annual Faith and Law Lecture, Disenfranchising Believers: How the Federal Courts’ Religious Motive Test Violates Religious Liberty, Dr. Francis Beckwith (Associate Professor of Church-State Studies, Baylor University, and author of Law, Darwinism, and Public Education), 7:00 p.m., Room 125, Willey Hall; free and open to the public. This Faith and Law Lecture Series is sponsored by the MacLaurin Institute and the Christian Legal Society (CLS), with the co-sponsorship of the Terence Murphy Institute and the Center for Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas, and the Federalist Society.

Thursday, March 22, 2007
Nihilism and Freedom: Is There a Difference?, Dr. David Bentley Hart, (Visiting Professor, Randall Chair in Christian Culture, Providence College, and author of The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth). Response by Timothy Brennan (Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota), 7:00 p.m., Room 125, Nicholson Hall; free and open to the public.

Thursday, March 29, 2007
"I Tell You the Truth": Truth as Certainty and Truth as Mystery, Dr. Leonard Sweet, Drew University (E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism, Drew University), 7:00 p.m., Solomon's Porch (100 W 46th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55419); free and open to the public.

Thursday, April 12, 2007
Turning the World Upside Down: Israel's Scripture in Luke-Acts, Dr. Richard Hays, (George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament, Duke Divinity School), 7:00 p.m., Room 102, Fraser Hall; free and open to the public.