Calvin College to Host 22 Chinese Scholars

A group of 22 Chinese graduate students and professors will be traveling to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to attend a four-week seminar from June 23 to July 18 on science, philosophy and belief.

The seminar is specifically designed for faculty and graduate students in related disciplines from universities in mainland China. The program will cover all of their travel and seminar expenses thanks to a $2 million grant received by Calvin in January 2007 from the John Templeton Foundation.

The upcoming seminar will be led by Calvin College's Del Ratzsch and Franklin & Marshall College's Michael Murray. In addition a quartet of luminaries from the worlds of science and religion will serve as guest instructors and will deliver lectures free and open to the public (see Web site above for details).

Calvin's Joel Carpenter, director of the college's Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity, said the seminar will examine a universal topic.

"Chinese intellectuals are eager to engage their western counterparts, and fewer topics are hotter than the relationship between scientific and religious ways of knowing," he said.

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