2 September 2010
07:30-08:30 Registration
08:30-08:45 Opening
address
Prof Kuzvinetsa Dzvimbo
(Deputy
Executive Dean: College of Human Sciences, Unisa)
08:45-09:15 Introduction:
Shifting frontiers of transcendence: Immanent transcendence in the 21st
century
Prof Cornel du
Toit
(Research
Institute for Theology and Religion, Unisa)
09:15-10:15 Transcendence
in a culture of immanent mysticism. A perspective from Western Europe
Prof Toine van den Hoogen (Fundamental Theology, Religion
and Social Theory, Radboud University
Nijmegen)
10:15-10:30 TEA /COFFEE
10:30-11:15 The
rise of the human predator and
the transcendence of consciousness
Prof Francois du Rand (Palaeontologst, Dept. of
Zoology, University of Johannesburg)
11:15-12:00 Our limbic
system and the so-called religious brain
Dr Etienne van der Walt
(Neurologist, Cape Town)
12:00-13:00 LUNCH
13:00:13:45 Transcendence
in physics:
An oxymron?
Dr. Detlev Tönsing
(Physicist/theologian, University
of KwaZulu-Natal)
13:45:14:30 Changing
modes of theological rationality
Prof Toine van den
Hoogen (Fundamental Theology, Religion
and Social Theory,
Radboud University
Nijmegen)
14:30-14:45 TEA /COFFEE
14:45-15:30 Transcendence
in African
traditional
religion
Dr Francis Rakotsoane
(National University of Lesotho)
15:30-16:15 Transcendence
in art
Prof Amanda du Preez
(??? University
of Pretoria)
16:15-17:00 Immanent
transcendence and the
radical transcendence:
the fundamental issue between
a Christian theology and a
naturalistic metaphysic
Prof Klaus Nürnberger (Systematic theologian)
Homo
transcendentalis?
Transcendence in science and religion:
Interdisciplinary
perspectives
2
& 3 September 2010
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Transcendence
in science and religion:
Interdisciplinary
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South African Science and
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DATE: 2 & 3 September 2010
VENUE: Building 7, Room 2A
Unisa
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Sunnyside, Pretoria
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Friday
3 September 2010
08:30-09:15 Transcendence
in music
Frank Valentine (Kinesiologist, Johannesburg)
09:15:10:00 Mysticism
as accommodation of
transcendence
The
Revd Dr Jeremy J Jacobs (St George’s
Anglican Church, Johannesburg)
10:00-10:30 TEA/COFFEE
10:30-11:15 Self-transcendence and eros.
The human condition between want and desire
Prof Cornel du Toit
(Research
Institute for Theology
and
Religion, Unisa)
11:15-12:00 Transcendence in
present-day
secular society with reference
to
secular spirituality
Julian Muller
(University of Pretoria)
12:00-12:45 Immanent transcendence in a
post-foundationalist religion:
an impossible
dream?
Prof Hansie Wolmarans
(University of Johannesburg)
12:45-13:30 Transcendence
in religion:
The
role of ritual
Dr. Elsabe Kloppers
(Musicologist/Thelogian)
Homo
transcendentalis?
Transcendence
in science and religion:
Interdisciplinary
perspectives
South African Science and
Religion Forum
(SASRF)
2 & 3 September 2010
Research Institute for
Theology and Religion
University of South Africa