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Faith & Life Special Lectures
 Each year, several noteworthy writers and professors present special lectures at the Center for Christian Study, fostering discussion of contemporary issues and providing the opportunity to question authors about significant culture developments. The schedule of topics and speakers will be posted in the Study Center’s building and on this website as soon as it is available.
An Evening With Vigen Guroian
Rallying the Really Human Things:
The Moral Imagination in Politics,
Literature, and Everyday Life
Monday, November 14, 2005, 7:00 p.m.
In the opening chapter of the new book, Rallying the Really Human Things: The Moral Imagination in Politics, Literature, and Everyday Life (ISI, 2005), Vigen Guroian writes, "'We need a rally of the really human things; will which is morals, memory which is tradition, culture which is the mental thrift of the fathers.' That was the judgment of G.K. Chesterton some seventy years ago in an essay titled 'Is Humanism a Religion?' In order to rally the really human things, Chesterton proposed a new Christian humanism, while he simultaneously warned of the dangers and deceptions of a popular secular humanism that behaved as it if were a religion." (3)
Author and professor Vigen Guroian's eight books cover a wide range of topics, from classic children's stories to ethics after Christendom. Rallying the Really Human Things includes an essay on the sexualization of the college campus, the subject of his talk Dorm Brothel in March at the Center for Christian Study. (Click here to read the essay.)
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There is no charge for this event, and it is open to the public.
On Staying True
Drew Trotter, President,
Center for Christian Study
in advance of the release of the movie
The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 7:00 p.m.
What will it take for the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to remain true to the vision of the novel's author, C. S. Lewis? Does this matter?
Join us for a broad discussion of what it means for a film to
remain "true" to a novel by looking at the Lewisian vision present in Wardrobe and the film's rendering of that vision.
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There is no charge for this event, and it is open to the public
An Evening With Richard Winter
Perfecting Ourselves to Death: The Pursuit
of Excellence and the Perils of Perfectionism
(Lecture given on October 17 , 2005, 7:00 p.m.)
Author and professor Richard Winter lead a conversation from his new book, Perfecting Ourselves to Death (InterVarsity Press 2005). The conversation explored the positive and negative effects of perfectionism in our lives.
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