INVITATION
Hong Kong Baptist University
University Eminent Lecture
Caring for Nature : From Respect to Reverence
We take great pleasure in inviting you to the University Eminent Lecture Caring for Nature: From Respect to Reverence, organised by the Centre of Sino Christian Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, to be delivered by Professor Holmes Rolston III, Templeton Laureate (2003) and University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University.
Professor Rolston is also Gifford Lecturer (1997-1998), recipient of Mendel Medal (2005) and founding member of the International Society of Science and Religion at Cambridge University. He has spoken as distinguished lecturer on all seven continents and at many acclaimed academic institutions. He was distinguished Visiting Professor of Bioethics, Yale University (2005-2006).
The lecture Caring for Nature: From Respect to Reverence is certainly one of the most fascinating topics in environmental ethics. If anything at all on Earth is sacred, it must be this enthralling creativity that characterizes our home planet.
Details of the lecture are provided below :
Date : Thursday, 6 November 2008
Time: 4:30pm to 6:30pm
Venue :Council Chamber, 5/F Shaw Tower, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Language :English
Kindly confirm your acceptance of this invitation by completing and returning to us the attached Reply Slip by Monday, 3 November 2008. For further enquiries, please contact Ms Linda Wu (Tel: 3411 5370).
Professor TSOI Ah Chung
Vice-President (Research and Institutional Advancement)
*Templeton Prize is widely regarded as the equivalent of Nobel Award in Religion. Gifford Lectures appointments have been the most prestigious honors in philosophy and religious studies since the lectures were established in the late 19th century. Mendel Medal, named in 1929 after Gregor Johann Mendel, Augustinian Abbot and founder of genetics, is given primarily to scientists to recognize their outstanding contributions to genetics and to science more generally with concern for the ethical and religious dimensions of their research.
HKBWS members may email to
secretary@hkbws.org.hk for the application form
