Audio Recordings

The Christian Study Center regularly records its classes and lectures for the benefit of those unable to attend our events in person. We are happy to provide a selection of these recordings as free audio downloads. As of Spring 2011, we have begun distributing our audio files as podcasts. You can find the podcast here (opens in iTunes) and subscribe to the podcast to download new lectures automatically.

Fall 2010 Program

• Monday Class: Arts, Science and Society in an Age of Religious Reform: Early Modern Lessons for a Contemporary World
• Director’s Class: The Possibility of Meaning in a Culture of Possibilities

Fall 2009 Program
Monday Class: Perspectives on Science and Worldview

• “Science, Religion, and Worldview,” Fred Gregory, Professor of History, UF
  
• “Can Science and Theology Make Peace in the Age of Darwin?” Brent Henderson, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UF
  
• “Thinking about Science from an Astronomer’s Perspective,” Ata Sarajedini, Professor of Astronomy, UF
  
• “Does Science Point to God?” Richard Buggs, Post-Doctorate in Evolutionary Genetics
  

Fall 2008 Program
Monday Class: The Eclipse and Re-Appearance of the Human in Higher Education

• “Locating the Human in a Post-Humanist Culture” Richard Horner, Executive Director of the Christian Study Center
  
• “Can Molecular Genetics Explain What Makes us Human?” Richard Buggs, Post-Doctorate in Evolutionary Genetics
  
• “What Makes us Human? Two Perspectives from Linguistics” Brent Henderson, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
  
• “Critical Theory and ‘the Rage Against Humanism and the Enlightenment Legacy’” Manuel A. Vasquez, Associate Professor of Religion
  
• “Student Reflection as a Means to Restore the Human in the Medical Care of Human Beings” Jay Lynch and Heather Harrell, College of Medicine
  

Spring 2008 Program
Culture Seminar

• “Environmental Studies as a Nexus for Recovery from Fragmentation in Higher Education,” Calvin DeWitt, Professor of Environmental Studies, Nelson Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
• “Speaking Up for Rights,” Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University; Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Culture, University of Virginia.

Special Lectures

• “A Theological Ecology: A Christian Framework for Environmental Con-Service,” Calvin DeWitt, Professor of Environmental Studies, Nelson Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
• “Love and Justice,” Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University; Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Culture, University of Virginia.
  

Technology and Local Ecological Health (co-sponsored by FOREST)

• “Forests, Forestry, Environmentalism and Technology: A Christian Forester’s Perspective,” Edward Barnard, Forest Pathologist, Florida Division of Forestry
  
• “Environmental Values and Local Practices,” Anna Peterson, Professor, Department of Religion, UF
  
• “Rethink Everything!: The Sustainability Challenge to Religious Ethics,” Bron Taylor, Professor, Department of Religion, UF