On Tuesday, September 16th, Dr. Paul Lim gave a public lecture at Christian Study Center.
What does western civilization have to do with Jesus? How does his life and teaching fit into modern western mores? Does it matter?
Taking Fyodor Dostoevsky’s trenchant and prophetic critique of western modernity’s misappropriation of freedom and its denial of Christ seriously, and engaging further with the ideas of Paul Kingsnorth, Jordan Peterson, Augustine, and Calvin, we will grapple with the allure of civilizational Christianity, Christian nationalism, as we will seek to answer the question: “Is ‘Christian civilization’ an oxymoron?”
Lecturer Bio
Paul C.H. Lim (Ph.D., Cambridge) is a Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. He is an award winning historian of Christianity, with particular research foci on consequences and reception of patristic theologies in modern western Christianity, as his last two books have dealt with the Trinity and Christology from Nicaea to the Enlightenment period. An adult convert to Christianity, he is constantly grappling with the ideal and reality of “life in two cities,” the City of God and the City of Man, always fumbling about, thus in desperate need of grace, forgiveness and restoration from God and fellow men!
