And So It Goes

This is the fifth and final part of the master’s thesis on science and religion at Durham University (2015). It took close to 12 months to complete and submit the paper, and I was immensely grateful to my supervisor Professor Wilkinson for seeing me through the whole process successfully. He warned that science and religion type essays tend not to grade well, because, theologians tend to be intellectually tribalistic about their discipline. Thankfully, I managed to get decent results which…

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The fourth part of the master’s thesis on science and religion at Durham University (2015) is where I explore consonances between the doctrine of sin and the evolutionary social sciences. It’s the crux of the thesis. Stitching together two fields of inquiry typically yields interesting and useful insights. It may be career suicide for an academic, but since a strict academic career was not the path for me, I chose to pursue less-trodden pathways between established roads. Serious and sustained…

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The third part of the master’s thesis on science and religion at Durham University (2015) describes the doctrine of sin common to the great Christian traditions. I leveraged my training in biblical languages and prior research from all my other essays. And I combined these with a study of the doctrine by contemporary theologians at the cutting edge. The point of describing a nuanced and robust doctrine of sin was to find resonances between it and modern social scientific accounts…

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