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Welcome.... The
UBC Graduate and Faculty Christian Forum (GFCF) was founded in 1988
by a group of University faculty members and graduate students with
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Organize
monthly meetings between September and March on the UBC campus that
provide a forum for discussing points of engagement between Christian
faith and scholarship across the range of disciplines |
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Provide
opportunity for graduate students and faculty to meet for fellowship
and sharing of insights on the connections between Christian faith and
particular ventures in modern scholarship |
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Introduce
non-Christians to the claims of Christianity, and to show the faith's
reasonableness under intellectual scrutiny |
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We think that scholarship and faith are not only compatible but mutually enriching. Each is concerned with the search for answers. Science often provokes questions it cannot answer by itself, but a reasoned faith examines the evidences for important answers to the deeper questions of life. Though such answers may be inaccessible to science, they need not be incompatible with the scientific spirit and can be fully open to the best of scientific insights. Arts and the humanities also probe into questions they cannot answer without considering how faith and religion have shaped culture and the course of history. The forum provides researchers with the chance to share their research and show how faith integrates with or guides that research. The
GFCF has no denominational base and aims to present a broad Christian
apologetic to the university public. Speakers come from the UBC campus,
the region and further afield and have included Jeremy Begbie, Alvin
Plantinga, Sir John Polkinghorne, Nicholas Wolterstorff, David Lyon,
Francis Collins, and Owen Gingerich. While proceeding from an orthodox
Christian theology, the GFCF inclusively welcomes interaction from
other university viewpoints in its meetings. The monthly forum is
a setting where ideas are welcome that are open to discussion and
contradiction. |
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