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Glen Ellyn Covenant Church, Hawthorne Boulevard, Glen Ellyn, IL, USA
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Lewis argued that if materialism is true, it erases the foundation of rational thought by reducing our beliefs to mere physical processes. Dr. Max Baker-Hytch explores the question – “do cracks in materialism point us towards a mind at the foundation of reality?

Glen Ellyn Covenant Church, Hawthorne Boulevard, Glen Ellyn, IL, USA [email protected]

God & Rationality
Lewis's Argument from Reason

with Dr. Max Baker-Hytch

In one of his classic work of apologetics, Miracles, C.S. Lewis presented his argument for God from reason. He argued that, if true, materialism erases the foundation of reason by reducing our beliefs to physical processes. After a famous debate with philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, Lewis sharpened his argument and even Anscombe later credited him with having spotted a real problem for materialism.

Modern philosophers like Alvin Plantinga and Victor Reppert have since refined this argument in interesting ways, all of which raises a provocative question: do these cracks in materialism point us towards a mind at the foundation of reality? Join us at Glen Ellyn Covenant Church as we host Oxford philosopher Dr. Max Baker-Hytch to explore this provocative question against the backdrop of Lewis’s classic argument for the existence of God.

Date: Thursday, October 10, 2024
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm CT
Location: Glen Ellyn Covenant Church | 277 Hawthorne Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137

Max Baker-Hytch

Apologist

Dr. Max Baker-Hytch is a tutor in philosophy at Oxford University and lecturer in philosophy at Wycliffe Hall. He’s the Academic Advisor at Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA). Max received his DPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford in 2014 and held two postdoctoral research fellowships, one at Oxford and one at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests mainly focus on the intersection of the philosophy of religion and epistemology. Max has published over a dozen scholarly articles and book chapters on various topics within these fields. Most recently, he's published a book with Cambridge University Press titled God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity.

 

The Schedule

7:00 pm - 8:45 pm Lecture