EVENT: What�s reasonable to believe?

The Letter to the Hebrews, in the Bible, describes faith as "the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen"



In what parts of our lives do we regularly make decisions based on faith, from predicting the actions of other drivers on the roads, to the appreciation of love in relationships? What is the relationship between such simple daily acts of faith and taking a further step to faith in God? Does 'spirituality and religion' operate according to completely different rules or evidence? On what basis could we claim a faith is reasonable? Or is faith simply pathological?



In the context of a secular university, what is the place of 'faith' in public discourse?





Dr John Shepherd has degrees in Arts (History and Philosophy) and Theology from the University of Melbourne, where he studied at Trinity College, and a Master of Sacred Music from Union Theological Seminary in New York. At St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, where he was the John Stewart of Rannoch Scholar, he completed a PhD on the relationship between theology and music in the English Reformation, and as Chaplain of Christ Church Oxford from 1980-88, taught Reformation theology and Renaissance music history. He is currently Dean of Perth at St. George’s Cathedral.

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