A Worldless Faith, A Faithless World: A CFC Lecture with Ken Myers

The Center for Faith and Culture invites you to hear Ken Myers from Mars Hill Audio on Tuesday, October 25th at 7:00 pm.

Since 1993, Ken Myers has served as the host and producer of the MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, a bimonthly audio magazine that examines the shape of contemporary culture in light of historic Christian belief. He was formerly the editor of This World: A Journal of Religion and Public Life, the quarterly journal that metamorphosed into the monthly First Things. Earlier he served as executive editor of Eternity, the Evangelical monthly magazine. For eight years, he was a producer and editor for National Public Radio, working for much of that time as arts and humanities editor for Morning Edition.

Mr. Myers will be lecturing on A Worldless Faith, A Faithless World: How Dualistic Theology Promotes Secularization.

On all fronts, public life in American society is becoming more hostile to Christian beliefs and practices. It is tempting to explain this purely in terms of political power. But what if our condition is the product of centuries of bad theology that fails to connect Creation and Redemption — nature and grace — adequately? In exploring the genealogy of the modern West’s misunderstandings about God and culture, Ken Myers argues that the public hostility to Christians is a logical working out of a radically privatized vision of Christianity common in modern theology and church life.