Month: March 2012

Professor William Sweet of St. Francis Xavier University has sent along the title and abstract for his Newman Lecture, which will be offered during the 2012 AGM in Waterloo, ON at the end of May. We are very much looking forward to a busy few days at Congress and Professor Sweet’s talk will no doubt be a highlight of our time together. Hope to see you there!

Is the ‘Intelligibility of Religious Language’ Debate Dead?

One standard argument in Anglo-American philosophy of religion of the last half century is that religious language is unintelligible or not cognitively meaningful. Many have regarded such an argument as problematic, but the current status of the debate is not clear. Arguably this is, in part, because relatively little consideration has been given to explaining how religious language is intelligible. I review some of the history of this philosophical debate, note some contributions from recent discussion in theology on this question, and propose how one might defend the intelligibility of religious language.

Each year the Canadian Theological Society receives funding from SSHRC to assist with travel and campus accommodation expenses at our Annual CTS Conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Presenters, especially students, are a high priority for the allocation of these funds. Generally, in past years, CTS has been able to cover at least half of the eligible travel and accommodation expenses for students presenting papers at CTS who have for applied to CTS for this assistance. Travel subsidy forms will be available this year at the conference. Only CTS members are eligible for travel subsidies. For further information, please contact Bob McKeon, CTS Treasurer, by email at rmckeon@shaw.ca.

The CTS annual conference and meetings is taking place in Waterloo, Ontario as part of Congress 2012. Please click here to see a draft schedule of the conference papers, panel presentation, meetings and social events for 2012.