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Printer-Friendly ModeLecture to explore God's purposes
October 31, 2005 —
Examining the motives of the Almighty can be controversial, but that is what visiting speaker Eleonore Stump intends to do in her lecture, "Horrendous Evil: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering."
The Robert J. Henle professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, Stump will tackle the question, "If a loving God exists, why do innocent people suffer?" when she speaks Thursday at 7 p.m. in Founders Hall.
Her talk is the 2005 Edwards Lecture in Philosophy and Religion at SVSU.
Educated at institutions such as Grinnell, Harvard and Cornell, Stump is editor-in-chief of the Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy and served as section editor for the philosophy of religion for the new Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Stump has held grants from the American Association of University Women, the Mellon Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame and the National Humanities Center.
Stump was a guest speaker at the 2003 Gifford Lectures, a tradition that began in Scotland more than a century ago to focus on the study of natural theology, or the knowledge of God.
The lecture is open to the public, and admission is free of charge. For more information, call (989) 964-7251.