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How do you persuade people of the gospel when they are irrational or unaccepting of moral truth?

In any conversation about ethics moral truth is often assumed. Indeed, the Law can serve as a tutor in giving us an awareness of human sinfulness and our need for a savior. But how do we engage with people when they deny the concept of moral truth? In this question and answer session, Professor Jerry Root offers insights and advice.

This resource is part of a series on C.S. Lewis, Evangelism, and Engaging the Culture. Click here to listen to the full series


Jerry Root

Jerry Root is the Christopher W. Mitchell Senior Fellow for C.S. Lewis Studies at the C.S. Lewis Institute; Emeritus Professor of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois and a visiting Professor at Biola University. He received his Ph.D. from the Open University through the Oxford Centre for Missions Studies. Jerry has nine published books, as well as numerous articles and publications about C. S. Lewis and evangelism in other books, journals, and periodicals, as well as read numerous academic papers at various academic venues. Recently, he published, Splendour in the Dark, a book about C. S. Lewis’s narrative poem Dymer (the book also includes Lewis’s 100-page poem). Jerry has lectured on Lewis topics at 79 Universities in 19 different countries.
 

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