by
Professor Hendrik Hart
on
Mar. 27, 2002 and Mar. 28, 2002
held at
Kitchener Public Library and University of Waterloo

Professor Hendrik Hart offered this seminar at two venues – the University of Watyerloo and the Kitchener Public Library. Attendance at the University of Waterloo was about 25 and at the library only 5. Hendrik recently retired as professor of philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. One of the areas he worked on was the spirituality of all human endeavors, not just the work of religious people. He tried in this way to gain acceptance for religious people who wanted to make open connections between their spirituality and their scholarly work. In this context he spent much times assessing the spirit of Reason of the West, both as it influenced secular academics and as it influenced religious life. In his seminar, Hendrik shared with us some results of these studies as they impact on understanding the world in which we live…