IRCI Public Lecture - Judith Wolfe (Imagining a World)

How can we live truthfully in a world riddled with ambiguity, contradiction, and clashing viewpoints? We habitually make sense of the world by imaginatively resolving ambiguous and incomplete impressions into distinct forms and wholes. But the images, objects, words, and even lives of which we make sense in this way always have more or other possible meanings. This lecture draws on theology, philosophy, art and literature to enable a deeper sense of the ways in which imagination shapes everyday perception, and how it relates to art and faith. The lecture explores the challenges of living in the midst of disagreements, and suggess ways in which art and faith expand our imagination while also allowing us to live without full mastery of the world.

Please note that the lecture is free to attend, but registration is requested for catering purposes. Refreshments will be available from 18:00, and the lecture will begin at 18:30.

Judith Wolfe is Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of St Andrews and Professorial Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University. Her research focusses on Theology, Phenomenology of Religion, Eschatology and Apocalypticism.