Name: Why do bad things happen to good people? Approaches to the problem of evil in Religious Education
Start: 2025-02-20T14:20:00-0700
End: 2025-02-20T15:20:00-0700

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Thursday February 20, 2025 2:20pm - 3:20pm MST

RDP Room AC222 (Arts Centre)

In Oscar Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest, we hear “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.” Though a flippant remark about romance novels, the quip points us to a profound conundrum: how do we make sense of evil and the lack of justice in this world? Weighty queries such as these are among the most challenging posed by students and teachers can find themselves flat footed when asked to account for ruptures in the fabric of life. Designed for Religious Educators, this talk offers educators a variety of models and approaches supplied by the Bible as well as philosophers that can be employed in the classroom.

Speakers

Gerard Mclarney

Teacher, Elk Island Catholic Schools

Dr. McLarney teaches at St. Isidore Learning Center in Sherwood Park AB., and serves as a sessional instructor at St. Joseph's College, University of Alberta. His academic interests include Religious Education, World Religions, J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as Sacred Scripture. His doctorate... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 2:20pm - 3:20pm MST
RDP Room AC222 (Arts Centre)

Religious & Moral Education (TQS 3), Division 3 (Gr 7-9), Division 4 (Gr 10-12)

CATCA 2025

Gerard Mclarney

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