Abstract

Details: Join eminent public intellectuals Dr James Orr and Prof. Simon Conway Morris for an invigorating debate about the benefits of Christianity in a University setting and the consequences of its recession, chaired by Dr Oliver Rudland.

Dr James Orr is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Divinity and an outspoke advocate for national conservatism and founder of the ‘NatCon’ movement.

Prof. Simon Conway Morris is world-renowned palaeontologist based at the Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge who has argued for a theistic view of biological evolution.

Dr Oliver Rudland is a composer of operas and a musicologist who has written about the importance of recognising the Judeo-Christian roots of Western culture.

Followed by Q&A from the audience.