The Areopagus Lectures were inaugurated to extend the mission of Mars Hill Audio into our local community. In launching the Areopagus Lectures, Mars Hill Audio hoped to stimulate conversation among our neighbors about how to navigate this time in the Church’s history with wisdom, courage, and hope. By recording these important presentations and the subsequent live discussion, we can share what we are learning here in central Virginia with a wider audience.
D. C. Schindler: “For Freedom Set Free”
D. C. Schindler argues that the Christian notion of religious liberty is a synthesis of the Jewish, Roman, and Greek traditions. (61 minutes)
Alison Milbank: Imaginative Apologetics beyond C. S. Lewis
Alison Milbank offers an approach to defending the Christian faith that restores the imagination as a faculty inseparable from reason. (61 minutes)
Paul Tyson: Escaping the Silver Chair
With the help of C. S. Lewis’s story The Silver Chair, Paul Tyson explains how identifying and then escaping the ways in which we are bewitched about what is “really real” is no easy task. (68 minutes)
Gisela Kreglinger: Victorian Wisdom for Contemporary Plights
Gisela Kreglinger considers how George MacDonald’s perspective on gender roles might guide us through some of the questions, problems, and concerns we face today. (68 minutes)
Simon Oliver: Creation, Modernity, & Public Theology
Simon Oliver examines the traditional understanding of the doctrine of Creation and explains how some of our modern divisions and disputes are the products of an insufficient framework for Creation that developed during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (71 minutes)
Peter J. Leithart: The Cultural Consequences of Christian Division
Peter J. Leithart discusses how the sixteenth-century Colloquy of Marburg shifted the understanding of the Eucharist from something that Christians primarily do together to something about which Christians think or believe a certain way. (69 minutes)