Seattle Pacific University recently issued the following announcement.
The annual Winifred E. Weter Faculty Award Lecture for Meritorious Scholarship provides a public platform in which the claims of the liberal arts in the Christian university are espoused. Delivered each year by a SPU faculty member selected by the Faculty Status Committee, the Weter Lecture honors Winifred E. Weter, SPU professor emerita of classics. Her teaching career spanning 40 years (1935-75) exemplifies a life of Christian character and integrity. Her love for the study of classical languages and literature inspired a similar enthusiasm in thousands of her students, and this lecture continues that tradition of inspiration.
2022 WETER LECTURE, WINTER QUARTER
Priests of a Fallen Creation: The Temple, Natural Theology, and Ecology in Dialogue
Dr. Eric S. Long, Professor of Biology
Feb. 22, 2022
7 p.m. in Upper Gwinn Commons
As we try to make sense of both creation’s goodness and decay, Dr. Long proposes that a fruitful path forward involves synthesizing recent advances in the three fields: natural sciences (with an emphasis on ecology), natural theology (with an emphasis on Christian natural theology), and Biblical theology (with an emphasis on reading creation as God’s earthly temple). In the lecture, Dr. Long will first develop this three-pronged, interdisciplinary approach. Then, he will demonstrate how this approach may prove fruitful in addressing five, roughly chronological, questions ranging from creation to eschatology:
- Why does creation exist?
- How can we interpret the “goodness” of creation?
- What did (and didn’t) happen to creation at the Fall?
- Why is the earth groaning?
- Where is the earth headed (and what is our role)?
Original source can be found here.
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