The Morpeth Lecture is tomorrow, 23 July 2013 at 5:45pm at the Cathedral. The speaker is the Reverend Professor Graeme Ward, Regius Professor at Oxford University. His Topic: Why Believe? In a time for conflicting religious fundamentalisms and the political violences that seem to follow in their wake, it is important to understand the role believing plays in being human. In this lecture I will examine the nature of believing itself, the signs of its origins both in human prehistory and contemporary investigations into neuroscience. To have beliefs is a characteristic of being human, no animals believes. We will examine the way this anthropological condition relates to religious traditions and faith, emotional life and social organisation.
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