{"id":207088,"date":"2019-10-15T17:14:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T21:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=207088"},"modified":"2022-02-15T11:21:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:21:55","slug":"astrobiology-gaia-and-the-anthropocene-ironies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2019\/10\/15\/astrobiology-gaia-and-the-anthropocene-ironies\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrobiology, Gaia, and the Anthropocene Ironies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"description\">Astrobiology, Gaia, and the Anthropocene Ironies<br \/>\nOctober 30, 2019, 5:30pm<br \/>\nFeliciano School of Business 101<strong>What is the Anthropocene? Why does it matter? And how should we assess it? Dr. Frederick V. Simmons&#8217; lecture will explore scientific, ethical, and religious answers to these questions and argues that they are inextricably linked.<\/strong> He proposes that the new science of astrobiology&#8217;s use of the religious idea of Gaia offers a fruitful perspective on these matters by suggesting that the Anthropocene is most distinctive when least conspicuous.<\/p>\n<p>Frederick V. Simmons, PhD, holds a PhD in Religious Ethics from Yale University and is a Research Associate Professor at Boston University School of Theology and an Affiliate Faculty Member at Princeton Theological Seminary. He was previously the Houston Witherspoon Fellow in Theology and the Natural Sciences at the Center of Theological Inquiry. Dr. Simmons has taught at Yale Divinity School, Amherst College, La Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica del Ecuador, and La Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica Salesiana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2019\/10\/Final-PDF-Simmons-Oct-30-Astrobiology-Lecture-1-Maureen-Corbeski.pdf\">Download flyer here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information please contact the Department of Religion, Dickson Hall 446<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:relgdept@montclair.edu\">relgdept@montclair.edu<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"tel:973.655.368\">973.655.368<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/religion\">www.montclair.edu\/religion\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrobiology, Gaia, and the Anthropocene Ironies October 30, 2019, 5:30pm Feliciano School of Business 101What is the Anthropocene? Why does it matter? And how should we assess it? Dr. Frederick V. Simmons&#8217; lecture will explore scientific, ethical, and religious answers to these questions and argues that they are inextricably linked. He proposes that the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":207126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20_chss-news","category-7_homepage-news-and-events","category-282_religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207088"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209306,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207088\/revisions\/209306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}