College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

2. The Human Spirit and the Divine Spirit

The second lecture of Professor Michael Welker's Gifford series.

Event details

Date: Tuesday 29 October 2019, 5.30 - 6.30pm

The lecture may be followed by questions.  Latest finishing time is 7pm.

Venue: The Playfair Library, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL

Lecture abstract

Rather than conceive the spirit in an intellectual fashion—as consciousness, intelligence, rationality, and such bipolar notions as body-soul or body-spirit—we should understand both the human and the divine spirit in a multipolar and multimodal fashion. Only then do the full reality and creativity of the spirit become apparent, illuminating the challenges to which human beings are called today.

Lecture video