Can Christians find a “mere Christian” common ground for social and economic engagement? This event brings together professors and scholars from across the country to answer that question on a variety of related topics.
Dr. Micah J. Watson, Paul B. Henry Chair in Political Science, Director of the Henry Institute, and Director of the PPE program at Calvin University will give a keynote lunch lecture, as part of our regular Acton Lecture Series, on the topic: “The Church Should Give Us a Lead: C.S. Lewis on Modern Social Thought.”
While the challenge of poverty is endemic to the human condition, the rise of modernity and the industrial revolution made the problem more acute, particularly for Christians who know both that the poor will always be with us and that we’ve been commanded to look out for the least of these. While we cannot rightly characterize C.S. Lewis primarily as an economic or political thinker, he did address social and political matters in his major and minor works. Perhaps more importantly, his treatment of “mere” Christianity with regard to matters of conviction and practice offers hope that Christians from different backgrounds can find common cause in thinking about, and acting on, these questions. In this address we’ll consider what wisdom we might glean from Lewis’s understanding of how the church should, and shouldn’t, engage the social question.
Academics, students, educators, clergy, and general audiences are all welcome to attend.
This conference is made possible in part through the partnership of:
The Henry Institute
C. S. Lewis Society of California
The Ciceronian Society
The Davenant Institute.
