Andrew Fellows Tag

25 Oct

The Doctrine of God for a Self-Obsessed Age: The God Who is True to Himself

Part II of Andrew Fellows' Fall talk series.   The German philosopher Nietzsche predicted that the ‘death of God’ would lead to a culture of emptiness. That has transpired and our voided age needs God. But which God? In this lecture series Andrew Fellows argues that the antidote is a deep engagement with the true and living God and that He alone is the way back to reality, stability, and true happiness.   The nature of who God is means that He is always true to Himself. Contrary to what we believe, this is simply not possible for humans. In this lecture we see that humans only become who they were meant to be in relation to the One who is the great 'I AM'.   ...

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18 Oct

The Doctrine of God for a Self-Obsessed Age: The God Who is Not Like You

Part I of Andrew Fellows' Fall talk series.   The German philosopher Nietzsche predicted that the ‘death of God’ would lead to a culture of emptiness. That has transpired and our voided age needs God. But which God? In this lecture series Andrew Fellows argues that the antidote is a deep engagement with the true and living God and that He alone is the way back to reality, stability, and true happiness.   While the modern outlook reduces everything to some version of a monistic oneness, Christianity holds out a vision of two distinct orders of being. One is the unique life of God, and the other is creation. In this lecture, we see how grasping this distinction is the key to understanding reality rightly.   ...

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12 Dec

Webinar – A New Humanity: Abolition or Absolution? (Humanity Matters Series, 8 of 8)

If humans are in need of improvement how can this be accomplished? Should we aim to become 'posthuman' by merging with the machine, or is there a better path to our renewal?   ...

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30 Nov

Webinar – Now Cracks a Noble Heart: What’s Wrong with Humans? (Humanity Matters Series, 7 of 8)

Every major worldview has to explain human brokenness in some way. This webinar examines the various accounts offered today and asks whether they hold up under investigation.   ...

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26 Nov

Webinar – Eternity in our Hearts: the Human Relationship to Time (Humanity Matters Series, 6 of 8)

'What is time?', asked St Augustine. 'If no one asks me I know, but if I wish to explain it, I know not'. To be human is to have a consciousness of time, including a sense of our mortality. Andrew Fellows examines what it is to live in time as a way of further understanding our uniqueness as human beings.   ...

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16 Nov

Webinar – These Restless Hearts: Humans as Fundamentally Desiring (Humanity Matters Series, 5 of 8)

In this session, we ask what our longings mean: where do they come from, and where do they move us? Our desires, though frequently misdirected and incomplete, provide the essential key to understanding ourselves.   ...

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08 Nov

Webinar – Minding the World: Humans as Knowledge Seekers (Humanity Matters Series, 4 of 8)

Blaise Pascal wrote that 'man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed'. So, how is it that we know and how do we know that we know? This webinar examines how humans apprehend the world, and the light this sheds on who we are.   ...

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01 Nov

Webinar – What a Piece of Work is Man: A View from the Outside (Humanity Matters Series, 3 of 8)

The sheer range of human capacities is astonishing, even awe-inspiring. How do we account for them all? Today, we are used to explaining human talents reductively, boiling them down quickly to something more basic. This session beats a path towards an understanding of our humanity which elevates us, even as it grounds us in created reality.   ...

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24 Oct

Webinar – The Interior Castle: The View from the Inside (Humanity Matters Series, 2 of 8)

Consciousness is an undeniable fact and yet a profound mystery, too. What does it mean to be conscious? And what might consciousness lead us to say about our humanity? In this webinar, we will take a closer look at our interior life and consider the wonders to which it points.   ...

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18 Oct

Webinar – Human Beings as the Image of God (Humanity Matters Series, 1 of 8)

What are we? The answer we give to this question either grounds our nobility as humans or points to what Darwin called our ‘lowly origin’. In this first session of Christian Heritage's 'Humanity Matters' webinar series, Andrew Fellows examines various contemporary accounts of what it means to be human and contrasts them with one that truly ennobles us.   ...

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