The Lumen Christi Institute is excited to welcome Rev. Dr. Adam Hincks, S.J. as our scholar-in-residence for the winter quarter. In addition to being a Jesuit priest with the Canada province, Dr. Hincks is also a practicing cosmologist. He is an assistant professor and holder of the Sutton Family Chair in Science, Christianity and Cultures at the University of Toronto, with a joint appointment between the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and St. Michael’s College. He is also affiliated with the Vatican Observatory as an associate scholar.
During his time at the Lumen Christi Institute and University of Chicago, Fr. Hincks is teaching a non-credit course on the “Bible and the Big Bang,” which takes a deep dive into both the science of the early Universe and the Biblically-rooted doctrine of creation from nothing, and explores what, if any, is the relation between them.
Fr. Hincks is also offering a Magis Lecture at St. Ignatius College Prep on February 11th on the topic of “Faith, Belief, and Knowledge.” Based on St. Augustine’s teaching that “Believers are also thinkers: in believing, they think and in thinking, they believe,” Fr. Hincks will present knowledge and belief as interlocking rational activities and explore how they relate to religious faith.