FREE PUBLIC EVENT: Trinity Western University (Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) and CSCA’s Vancouver chapter present a lecture by Dennis Danielson (Professor Emeritus of English, UBC).
Starring the Earth and the Glory of God: A Book Launch
Planet Earth has been a familiar concept for a mere fraction of recorded history. Until about the mid-1600s, most humans thought of Earth as immobile, likely either dim or simply invisible from the Moon or anywhere else in the heavens, and not (like the planets) participating in what Galileo called “the dance of the stars.” The exhilarating story of how Copernicus and his followers changed all that can continue to enrich our understanding of how Earth and its inhabitants fit into the big picture of the Cosmos. But what intersections might there be between that understanding and the Christian faith?
This is a book launch of Dennis Danielson & Christopher M. Graney, A Universe of Earths: Our planet and other worlds, from Copernicus to NASA (Oxford University Press, 2026).
Dennis Danielson, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of British Columbia, is an intellectual historian who seeks to fuse the insights of science and the humanities, especially as illustrated in the enduring legacy of Copernicus’s attempt to re-imagine Earth amid the Universe. Danielson received the 2011 Konrad Adenauer Research Prize from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and was named 2023 Honored Scholar by the Milton Society of America. More information about the speaker is available here.
Cosponsors
This event is co-sponsored by the Canadian Scientific & Christian Affiliation and Trinity Western University (Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences).