“Debates about all the World and God”
New event format by the Cluster of Excellence and the Faculty of Protestant Theology
In the 2014 summer semester, the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” will for the first time present “Debates about all the World and God”. On Tuesdays, a theologian and a non-theologian will discuss current and controversial religious topics in this public series. The interdisciplinary schedule covers religious plurality and atheism, the relationship of theology and brain research, and bioethics, education, Europe and international justice. The Cluster of Excellence has organised the new format in cooperation with the Department of Protestant Theology of WWU on the occasion of the department’s centenary. The debates will be held on Tuesdays from 6.15 to 7.45 p.m. between 8 April and 8 July, in place of the Cluster of Excellence’s lecture series, in lecture theatre F1 at the Fürstenberghaus, Domplatz 20-22.
The new series was given the subtitle “Disputations between theology, natural and social sciences”. The debaters are renowned researchers from the University of Münster and other German, French and Swiss universities. Among them are the President of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe, Prof. Dr. Friedrich Weber, the Münster medical ethicist and former member of the Ethics Council, Prof. Dr. Bettina Schöne-Seifert, the Münster physicist Prof. Dr. Markus Donath, the Freiburg neurobiologist Robert-Benjamin Illing, and the spokesman of the board of the Giordano Bruno Stiftung, Michael Schmidt-Salomon.
Participants from the Cluster of Excellence will be the religious sociologist Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack, the philosopher Prof. Dr. Michael Quante, the social ethicist Prof. Dr. Marianne Heimbach-Steins, the social ethicist Prof. Dr. Hans-Richard Reuter, the political scientist Prof. Dr. Ulrich Willems, the legal scholar Prof. Dr. Matthias Casper, and the Protestant theologians Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Großhans and Prof. Dr. Michael Beintker. The religious scholars Prof. Dr. Andreas Feldtkeller from Berlin and Prof. Dr. Perry Schmidt-Leukel from the Cluster of Excellence will meet at the opening debate on 8 April about “One religion – many religions”. Coordinator of the series is the Dean of the Department of Protestant Theology and member of the Cluster of Excellence’s Board of Directors, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Achenbach. (vvm/han)
Debates about all the World and God. Disputations between theology, natural and social sciences
Sommer Semester 2014
8 April - 8 Juli 2014
Tuesdays, 6.15 pm to 7.45 pm
Lecture hall F1 at the Fürstenberghaus
Domplatz 20-22
48143 Münster
Programme
Plurality of cultures of religion |
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08.04.2014 | Andreas Feldtkeller, Berlin, und Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Münster Moderation: Jutta Sperber, Münster |
Eine Religion – Viele Religionen |
15.04.2014 | Johanna Rahner, Kassel, und Hans-Peter Großhans, Münster Moderation: Jürgen Werbick, Münster |
Eine Kirche – Viele Kirchen |
22.04.2014 | Eva-Maria Hinterhuber, Hagen, Susanne Talabardon, Bamberg, und Milad Karimi, Münster Moderation: Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Münster |
Christen – Juden – Muslime |
Thinking God |
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29.04.2014 | Michael Schmidt-Salomon, Oberwesel, und Armin Kreiner, München Moderation: Michael Beintker, Münster |
Atheismus und Traditionelle Religion |
06.05.2014 | Markus Donath, Münster, und Samuel Vollenweider, Zürich Moderation: Matthias Schleiff, Münster |
Gott – Mensch – Universum |
13.05.2014 | Karl-Heinz Ohlig, Saarbrücken, und Michael Beintker, Münster Moderation: Hans-Peter Großhans, Münster |
Monotheismus – Polytheismus – Trinität? |
Natural science and Theology |
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20.05.2014 | Robert B. Illing, Freiburg, und Dirk Evers, Halle Moderation: Traugott Roser, Münster |
Neurologie und Kognitionswissenschaft: Entsteht die Religion im Gehirn? |
27.05.2014 | Bettina Schöne-Seifert, Münster, und Reiner Anselm, Göttingen Moderation: Thomas Gutmann, Münster |
Der Beginn des Lebens |
03.06.2014 | Jean-Gustave Hentz, Straßburg, und Traugott Roser, Münster Moderation: Christian Grethlein, Münster |
Das Ende des Lebens |
Theology and Society |
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17.06.2014 | Traugott Jähnichen, Bochum, und Matthias Casper, Münster Moderation: Ludwig Siep, Münster |
Internationale Gerechtigkeit: Herausforderungen an die Wirtschaftsethik |
24.06.2014 | Landesbischof Friedrich Weber, Braunschweig, und Ulrich Willems, Münster Moderation: Reinhard Achenbach, Münster |
Europa und die Verantwortung der Religionsgemeinschaften |
01.07.2014 | Hans-Georg Ziebertz, Würzburg, und Bernhard Dressler, Marburg Moderation: Detlef Pollack, Münster |
Religion und Bildung |
08.07.2014 | Wolfgang Lienemann, Bern, und Winfried Nachtwei, Münster Moderation: Marianne Heimbach-Steins, Münster |
Friedensethik |