Campus Ministries

Graduate & Faculty Campus Ministries at UBC

 
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The Human Rights Dilemma
Human Rights is a pertinent issue these days around the globe. People's lives and livelihood depend on the mainte...
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The Human Rights Dilemma
Human Rights is a pertinent issue these days around the globe. People's lives and livelihood depend on the maintenance ...
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The Forum Lecture Series at UBC (2023-2024)
The upcoming, online lecture series from UBC Graduate and Faculty Christian Forum for the 2023-2024 school year. ...
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The Forum Lecture Series at UBC (2023-2024)
The upcoming, online lecture series from UBC Graduate and Faculty Christian Forum for the 2023-2024 school year. 
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The Necessary Perpetual Quest for Identity
Do you ever feel like you’re lost in a sea of options and expectations when it comes to figuring out who you are ...
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The Necessary Perpetual Quest for Identity
Do you ever feel like you’re lost in a sea of options and expectations when it comes to figuring out who you are and wh...

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Rescuing the Lost Language of Meaning


Charles Taylor and the Recovery of the Lost Language of Meaning

 

 

Some elements in modern culture have worked to repress/restrict our language usage--in particular what Charles Taylor calls the 'meta-biological', the language of significance. Restricted language means necessarily limited awareness/thinking capacity. This webinar is not about a lost civilization discovered by an anthropologist, but similar in some ways. Taylor seeks a recovery of 'constitutive' language, and he wants to expand our restricted linguistic horizons to enrich and empower.

Dr. Gordon E. Carkner reveals the significant dynamics of the three rungs in Taylor's ladder of meaning: habits, verbal articulation, and interpretation. He includes a beautiful illustration from UK biblical scholar N. T. Wright. Wright shows how Taylor's expanded linguistic grasp adds such value to human speech in his interpretation of the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. He reveals it afresh within a larger landscape of meanings, enhancing the human imagination. This highlights much more of the full 'city' of human language, rather than relying on simply one smaller suburb.


Dr. Gordon E. Carkner, the Director of Graduate & Faculty Campus Ministries, along with his wife Ute love connecting with future global leaders within the graduate student university community. Through hospitality, biblical investigation, prayer and discussions of faith and academic studies, these students are drawn into kingdom concerns and introduced to God's powerful agape love. 


Campus Ministry

A collection of articles about Campus Ministry at UBC including the Lecture series from UBC Graduate and Faculty Christian Forum

Campus Ministry

A collection of articles about Campus Ministry at UBC including the Lecture series from UBC Graduate and Faculty Christian Forum


Webinars & Blogs: Dr. Gordon E. Carkner

A collection of blog articles and webinars from Dr. Gordon E. Carkner

Webinars & Blogs: Dr. Gordon E. Carkner

A collection of blog articles and webinars from Dr. Gordon E. Carkner