1. Human Beings as God's Image?
The first lecture of Professor Michael Welker's Gifford series.
Event details
Date: Monday 28 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
The almost religious enthusiasm that competitive sports generate through mass media finds a negative parallel when the passions of the masses are successfully manipulated by a political system such as the Third Reich. The resulting brutalization and terror call into question any references to human beings as formed in the ‘image of God’. Hannah Arendt's studies challenge us to discover powers capable of countering such processes.