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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.
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The Humanitas
Forum on Christianity and Culture
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