The gift and challenge of atheism to religious perspectives

All are invited to join David Goa in his Month In Review, how current events impact religion and public life.

The gift and challenge of atheism to religious perspectives

 
Wednesday – December 8, 12pm - 1pm, MDT 
 


Zoom Link - https://zoom.us/j/2296875855
 


What really is an atheist perspective? Does it have roots similar to those of religion? Are the concerns of atheists and the concerns of those who hold to Judaism, Christianity and Islam in anyway similar? What does atheism contribute to religious understanding? What does a religious perspective contribute to atheism? Is a conversation possible? 

David Goa focuses on deepening the capacity of the faithful to think through the gifts of their traditions: the spiritual life, the theological traditions and our responsibility to the public world.

Thomas Merton, 1915-1968

Convert to Catholicism. Trappist monk with interest in Eastern spirituality.
Peace activist.

Do not be too quick to condemn a man who no longer believes in God; for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and sensuality and selfishness that have killed his faith.

Thomas Merton, Seeds of Contemplation
(New York NY: New Directions, 1949), 105.

Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905-1961

Swedish statesman and Secretary General of the United Nations. Mystic.
Awarded Nobel Prize for Peace in 1961.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

W.H. Auden, compiler, A Certain World: A Commonplace Book
(London: Faber and Faber, 1971), 174.

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