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Friday, September 6, 2002
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
GALESBURG -- Paul Copan, Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, will present two lectures on Monday, Sept. 30 at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Copan will speak on "Religious Diversity and Freedom of Speech" at 4 p.m., and on "The Arrogance of Religious Pluralism" at 7:30 p.m. Both talks are in the Common Room, Old Main, and are free and open to the public.
Copan, who specializes in religious diversity and a Christian perspective on pluralism and tolerance, is the author of "Is Everything Really Relative? -- The Assumptions of Relativism and the Culture of Truth Decay"; "True for You, But Not for Me"; and "That's Just Your Interpretation." He co-authored "Creation out of Nothing: Its Biblical, Philosophical, and Scientific Basis."
Copan also edited "Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?" and co-edited "Jesus' Resurrection: Fact or Figment?"; "Who Was Jesus? A Jewish-Christian Dialogue"; and "The Rationality of Theism." He has also written articles in Trinity Journal, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Dialogue, Philosophia Christi, and The Christian Research Journal.
Copan received his bachelor's degree at Columbia Bible College, master's at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and doctorate at Marquette University. In addition to teaching at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, Copan is a minister in New York.
The lectures are sponsored by a grant to Knox from the Hewlett Foundation.
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 48 states and 40 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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