released 9/21/2018
In his Areopagus Lecture, “Escaping the Silver Chair: Renewed Minds and Our Vision of Reality,” Dr. Paul Tyson discussed how the Christian responsibility “to repent” involves more than expressing feelings of regret for moral wrong-doing and the desire to reform. Rather, the New Testament call to “repentance,” the English rendition of the Greek word metanoia, is inseparable from radically reenvisioning what is “really real.” St. Paul’s admonition that we be “transformed by the renewing of our minds” — in other words, metanoia — invokes a process that demands the recognition and rejection of various false enchantments of this world. (If the chair imagery is puzzling, read C. S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair for clarification.) On this Friday Feature, Ken Myers talks with Paul Tyson about some of the false assumptions about reality in need of repudiation.
21 minutes
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