“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)

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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
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
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
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
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