Fairfield, CT - Sacred Heart University will host a talk themed “Evolution and Creation Theology” with Roger Haight, S.J.
Haight is an American Jesuit theologian and scholar-in-residence at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. The talk will touch upon the idea that God created the world in the context of a dialogue with science and, particularly, evolution.
The talk will be held in the University Commons, Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Avenue, Fairfield on Wednesday, January 31, at 7 p.m.
The event sponsor is The Curtis Center’s Contemporary Catholic Conversations Lecture Series
The event is free and open to the public.
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About Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University, the second-largest independent Catholic university in New England, offers more than 70 undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and certificate programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Conn., and satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland. More than 8,500 students attend the University’s five colleges: Arts & Sciences; Health Professions; Nursing; the Jack Welch College of Business; and the Isabelle Farrington College of Education. The Princeton Review includes SHU in its guides, Best 382 Colleges–2018 Edition, “Best in the Northeast” and Best 267 Business Schools–2018 Edition. It also placed SHU on its lists for “Best College Theater” and “Most Engaged in Community Service,” each of which comprises only 20 U.S. schools. U.S.News & World Report ranks SHU in its Best Colleges 2018guidebook and calls SHU the fourth “Most Innovative School” in the North. The Chronicle of Higher Education also names SHU one of the fastest-growing Roman Catholic universities in its 2016 almanac. Sacred Heart fields 32 Division I athletic teams and has an award-winning program of community service. www.sacredheart.edu