How Do You Present Faith in a Post-Modern Culture?

This special guest talk by Dr. Alister McGrath considers some of the major features of “postmodern culture,” which includes a preference for images and stories over arguments, and a suspicion towards “big ideas” of reality. We will look at how C. S. Lewis engages these questions as he allows us to present the faith in a way that emphasises its truthfulness, and deep appeal to the imagination and human experience. Drawing on some themes in his award-winning biography of C. S. Lewis, Dr. McGrath will offer a helpful way forward, showing how Christianity can connect with and reach into today’s culture that is deeply suspicious of concepts such as truth.

This talk will take place live on 1/F and streamed up to 2/F during 3pm service on 5 November.

About the speaker: Alister McGrath holds the Andreas Idreos Professorship in Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. Having begun his career as a scientist, he now holds three doctorates form the University of Oxford: a DPhil in Molecular Biophysics, a Doctor of Divinity in Theology, and a Doctor of Letters in Intellectual History. McGrath is particularly noted for his work on the relationship between science and religion.