Working Groups

New this year to the Toronto Christian Scholar Symposium, there will be a number of interdisciplinary Working Groups on various issues and topics, with the purpose of promoting discussion amongst fellow Christian academics across disciplines. Working Groups may feature brief presentations in addition to facilitated discussion.

Topics and facilitators include and are not limited to:

 

 Ethics in STEM – Ewan Goligher

Science and Religion – Chris Barrigar

Pain and Evil Paul Franks  

 Justice and Society – David Kupp

 Academic Freedom and Political Correctness -

Aesthetics, Beauty, and Order -

Pedagogy –

 

To Present in a Working Group, please submit a brief abstract to ncs.uoft@gmail.com by Friday, January 19th.

Presentations should be geared to an interdisciplinary audience and may be informal. Papers may be related to your research or another area of interest, but should return in some manner to Christian academics. 

 

Ewen Goligher

Ewan Goligher studied medicine at the University of British Columbia and trained in internal medicine and critical care medicine at the University of Toronto. Upon completion of his clinical training, he undertook Doctoral studies in physiology at the University of Toronto, completing the PhD in 2016. His research aims to delineate mechanisms of injury from mechanical ventilation with a view to prevention and treatment in order to improve outcomes for patients with acute respiratory failure around the globe.

Chris Barrigar

Chris Barrigar is Pastor of St Peter's Anglican Church, Montreal. He earned his MDiv at Wycliffe, ThM at TST, and PhD in Philosophy at McGill University. Chris has taught at the graduate level for a number of Canadian, Indian, and British institutions, and has published Freedom All The Way Up: God and the Meaning of Life in a Scientific Age (2017) and Theological Investigations (2005). He is a member of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, the Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers, the American Scientific Affiliation, and the Canadian-American Theological Association. A panel discussion of Freedom All The Way Up will be the keynote event at the 2018 meetings of the CSCP."

Paul Franks

Paul Franks joined the Tyndale Philosophy faculty in 2008 from the University of Oklahoma, where he completed his dissertation A Rational Problem of Evil: The Coherence of Christian Doctrine with a Broad Free Will Defense. He has published articles in Heythrop JournalPhilosophyPhilosophia ChristiReligious Studies and Sophia. He is also currently working on an edited book called Explaining Evil: Four Views that is scheduled to be released in 2018 (Bloomsbury Academic). Dr. Franks is a member of the Society of Christian Philosophers and an Executive Member of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.

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David Kupp is also senior partner at Kabisa International and at eCurious, where he helps NGOs with innovation and strategy, research and evaluation, and capacity building. He teaches as an adjunct faculty member in the Conrad Grebel / University of Waterloo Master of Peace and Conflict Studies, as well as in Humber College’s graduate diploma in International Development Management. David is into complex and integrated tapestries—seeking to interweave vibrant faith, academic excellence and professional effectiveness into the worlds of social change, community development and aid. He is a lifelong student in the arts and sciences of organizational leadership and learning, community action-research, citizen advocacy, contextual theology and adult learning.