Bearing Witness:  Disturbing the Peace of the Secular City

 

Dr. J. Budziszewski

 

 

The Humanitas Forum on Christianity and Culture

 

 

2010 Winter Lectures

February 19-20

 

 

Brentwood Baptist Church

Brentwood, Tennessee

 

 

 

Friday, 7:30 p.m.

Keeping the Faith in the Dark Night of the Culture

 

In this part of the world we are unlikely to suffer physical persecution for our faith.  Yet, it isn’t easy to live as though God is real in a culture that lives as though He isn’t.  Surrounded by the dark night of the culture, must we suffer the dark night of the soul?  How can we keep our lamps lit?

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Saturday, 8:30 a.m.

The Revenge of Conscience

 

The problem of moral decline is volitional, not cognitive.  It isn’t that we don’t know what’s right and wrong, but that we know but pretend that we don’t.  What happens in a soul, or in a society, when we tell ourselves that we don’t know what we really do?

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Break – 10:00 to 10:30 a.m.

 

 

Saturday, 10:30 a.m.

Cutting Through the Smoke of Self-Deception

 

After asking Jesus, “What is truth,” Pontius Pilate turned on his heel and walked out; he didn’t ask his question to begin a conversation, but to end one.  This teaches an important lesson: Some questions are real questions, but others are merely smokescreens.  Is it possible to cut through the smoke?

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Q&A Follows Each Lecture

 

 

Dr J. Budziszewski is professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin.  He is the author of numerous books, including The Revenge of Conscience, What We Can’t Not Know: A Guide, Evangelicals in the Public Square, and three books for young people about the Christian faith.

 

 

Location:  Brentwood Baptist Church, 7777 Concord Road West, Brentwood, TN.  Map.

 

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