FREE PUBLIC EVENT: CSCA’s Ottawa chapter presents a lecture by Peter Schuurman (PhD U Waterloo, Religious Studies).
Note!
- 5:00 pm: Student supper (free) and conversation with Peter Schuurman
- RSVP to [email protected] (for both supper and main event)
Deconstructing a Young Earth, Deconstructing Faith: Two Stories, Two Directions
Peter Schuurman takes a chapter from his new co-authored book (with Angela Reitsma Bick) Blessed are the Undone: Testimonies of the Quiet Deconstruction of Faith in Canada (New Leaf 2024) to demonstrate how modern science forces questions that can lead to the deconstruction and reconstruction of faith. Based on interviews with 28 Canadian Christians, Peter will share data from the interviews that focus on certain teachings about Genesis and how people handle the dissonance they feel as students of the natural sciences.
Peter Schuurman (PhD U Waterloo, Religious Studies) is a former campus minister (Brock University) and now adjunct professor at Redeemer University and executive director of Global Scholars Canada. He wrote a book on Bruxy Cavey and The Meeting House entitled The Subversive Evangelical: The Ironic Charisma of an Irreligious Megachurch (McGill-Queens 2019). What happened after 2021 at TMH became part of his next book with Angela Reitsma Bick: Blessed are the Undone: Testimonies of the Quiet Deconstruction of Faith in Canada (2024). He lives in Guelph with his family and golden doodle “Blaze,” where he attends New Life Church.
Related Event, March 1:
A Rocha Winter Activities, Potluck Supper and Evening Program with Dr. Peter Schuurman, Saturday March 1
Evening Program: Peter Schuurman will speak on “A Thousand Year Plan: The Deconstruction of Faith in Canada and the Potential for a (Re)Turn to a Creation Ethic.” Peter will draw on his new co-edited book to point to the possibilities for a renewed Creation ethic that lie within the current “deconstructing faith” trend. From interviews with 28 “deconstructing” Canadians, he examines the place of indigenous culture and history in hopes for a repentant and reconstructed Christian faith, a faith that sees the “community of creation” as key to the shalom that God promises for all.
For more details see: https://arocha.ca/event/march-1-ottawa-gatineau/
Co-sponsored by:
Global Scholars Canada
IVCF Graduate & Faculty Christian Fellowship
InterVarsity UnderGraduate
Laurentian Leadership Centre
New Leaf Network
Ottawa Campus Chaplaincy
