natural theology

On Sunday, April 28, a diverse group of participants from the Harvard Divinity School (HDS), including students, faculty, staff and affiliates, embarked on a field trip to the unique spiritual community known as the Church of the Woods in Canterbury, New...

On March 4-5, the Center hosted a small workshop, "Sacramental Presences: Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and Daoist Perspectives." For two days we took up today's turn in comparative studies to ritual and liturgical practice as an important site for new...

On Wednesday, December 2, Munjed M. Murad, a ThD candidate at the Harvard Divinity School, delivered the presentation, Living the Dream: Ibn al-'Arabi on Transcending and Interpreting Life. The lecture, analyzing the writings of Ibn al-'Arabi (d. 1240) in...

In this lecture, Professor Mohammed Rustom examined the Islamic understanding of nature with specific reference to Islamic metaphysics and the contemporary environmental crisis. The lecture consisted of a poem and its commentary. Entitled "Islam and the...

Robert Morrison, Associate Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College, spoke about the Christian category of natural theology and how it relates to Islam at the Center for the Study of World Religions on November 7, 2013.