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CSLI-Greenville presents:
An 8-week study of C. S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man and Carl Trueman's Strange New World
Do you find yourself struggling to grasp what is happening in our current cultural climate, especially as every flashpoint issue seems somehow tied to identity, sexuality, and gender? Would you like to be able to converse more meaningfully about these issues with friends, neighbors, and family? If so, this fall study offered by the C. S. Lewis Institute-Greenville is for you.
We will closely read one of C. S. Lewis’s shortest yet most profound books, The Abolition of Man, in which he predicts our current cultural moment with remarkable precision. We will pair The Abolition of Man with a study of Carl Trueman’s recent book, Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution (2022). Read together, these books – with accompanying lectures and Bible studies – will equip you to understand what makes our present time so challenging and distinctive from past watershed eras.
Join us every other Thursday from 6:30-9:00PM, beginning October 6 and ending November 17 (four meetings in all), as we open these illuminating texts together through a combination of lectures, Bible study, and small group discussion. Our prayer is that you will find our present cultural moment less mystifying and feel equipped to engage it meaningfully in whatever circles of influence the Lord has placed you.
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The Abolition of Man
by C.S. Lewis
In the classic The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century, sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society. Both astonishing and prophetic, The Abolition of Man is one of the most debated of Lewis’s extraordinary works.
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Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution
Carl Trueman
How did the world arrive at its current, disorienting state of identity politics, and how should the church respond? Historian Carl R. Trueman shows how influences ranging from traditional institutions to technology and pornography moved modern culture toward an era of “expressive individualism.” Investigating philosophies from the Romantics, Nietzsche, Marx, Wilde, Freud, and the New Left, he outlines the history of Western thought to the distinctly sexual direction of present-day identity politics and explains the modern implications of these ideas on religion, free speech, and personal identity.
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Matt Miller
Matt Miller is the Director of the C. S. Lewis Institute Greenville. His great passion is helping believers understand God's Word more deeply and connect its truth to life in a meaningful and comprehensive way. Matt has previously served as a senior pastor, theological translator, and adjunct seminary professor. He studied Economics and Philosophy at Wake Forest University before going on to earn an M.Div. from Reformed Theological Seminary (Charlotte) and a D.Min. from Erskine Theological Seminary. He is currently a non-residential PhD candidate at the University of Bristol (England). Matt and his wife, Lindsay, have lived in Greenville for all 10 years of their marriage and have three children: Elise, Davis and Owen.
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