Una clase inusual sobre ciencia y fe en una universidad secular: caos, complejidad y cristiandad

Abstract

Since 2001 I have been sharing at the University of California, Davis an original seminary entitled “Chaos, Complexity and Christianity”, which is available to all students. Going beyond the conventional theme included in the dialog between science and religion, this class intends to show how recent investigations about complexity, both natural and that induced my mankind, provide sound guidelines that invite to the love of Jesus Christ as the only solution to our problems and dreams, as He Himself affirms it. In this presentation, I summarize the specific materials, scientific-Biblical, of the nine encounters that make up the class, cite some of the comments students have made throughout the years, and report on the consequences inherited by accepting the challenge of trying to illustrate the faith in a domain eminently secular. Starting in 1997, and recently once a year at Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum in Rome, I have had the opportunity of sharing lectures related to the class, which, in concordance with the festivities in 2016, were named “From Modern Science to God’s Mercy”. Here I also explain the content of such talks and relate my efforts of using them in diverse forums, ecclesiastical or not, in various countries.