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...forum features Christian speakers such as Alvin Plantinga, former president of the American Philosophical Association, David Barton, the founder of Wallbuilders, a Christian political organization, and people in secular fields such as Fritz Schaeffer, professor of chemistry at the University of Georgia and Lee Rouson, a two-time Superbowl champion...
Three guests will speak about the academic principles behind Christianity: Alvin Plantinga, professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame; Peter Kreeft, a philosophy professor at Boston College; and David Barton, the founder of Wallbuilders, a Christian political organization...
...Alvin Plantinga, a philosophy professor at Notre Dame, says that despite the surface discord, these electronic exchanges will ultimately help people from many religions understand the common ideas that bind them together. "One of the sustaining causes of religious disagreement has been the sense of strangeness, of pure unfamiliarity," he says. "The communications revolution will not wash out the important differences, but we will learn to grade our differences in order of importance." Rached Ghannouchi, an Arab philosopher from North Africa, argues in a Webzine called The Electronic Whip that it is imperative that the inhabitants of the small, networked...
...changing so fast, that scholars are still struggling to answer that question, or even make sense of it. Most traditional religious thinkers are skeptical. "I don't think the computer revolution has any cosmic implications for religion at all," says Notre Dame's Plantinga. "We already know...
These radical notions dovetail with a spiritual movement known as process theology, whose proponents argue that God evolves along with man. In their mind, the immutable God embraced by scholars like Plantinga make no more sense today than an unchanging computer operating system. "If God doesn't change, we are in danger of losing God," says William Grassie, a Quaker professor of religion at Temple University, "There is a shift to [the idea of] God as a process evolving with us. If you believe in an eternal, unchanging God, you'll be in trouble...