Cambridge House at William & Mary: Public Lecture, Images of the Divine in C.S. Lewis, , April 12, 7pm

Great things are happening at the Cambridge House Christian Study Center at the College of William & Mary. Dozens of college students and Christian faculty & staff at William & Mary are learning together what it means to love God with all their hearts and minds, on a secular college campus.

On Friday, April 12, members of the Williamsburg Christian community can get a sense of what the mission of the Cambridge House is all about.

Every year, William & Mary graduates students who end up becoming culture shapers and leaders, their influence trickling across all sectors of society. Who will be tomorrow’s culture leaders, on par with those W&M graduates like today’s Robert Michael Gates (former U.S. Secretary of Defense & Director of Central Intelligence), Glenn Close (actress), Sean McDermott (head coach of the Buffalo Bills), James Comey (former FBI Director), Jon Stewart (comedian, television host), or Jen Psaki (former White House Press Secretary under Biden)? Those who are praying for the Cambridge House hope that among them will be students whose experience with the Cambridge House is helping to form their spiritual and intellectual passions for serving Christ.

I had the privilege earlier in the semester of leading a small reading group of Cambridge House students, to survey the history of the church. It was thrilling for me to be with young people with brilliant minds and open hearts discussing everything from the Nicene Creed to Martin Luther to Vatican II. But more is happening!

Jon Thompson, the director of the Cambridge House, has invited a gifted speaker to give a public lecture on the topic of “Imagination & the Transcendent: Images of the Divine in C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces.” Douglas Hedley is a Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge.

One of the things that Dr. Hedley has been known for was to participate in one of the roundtable discussion groups organized by the well-known Canadian psychologist, Jordan Peterson.  Here is a short YouTube clip featuring Dr. Hedley:

More information about Dr. Hedley’s lecture can be found below, where you can click on the image to RSVP for the event: Friday, April 12th, at 7pm, Washington 201.  Put that on your calendar! If you have not done so already, please be sure to sign up for the Cambridge House newsletter, to keep up-to-date with such events.

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Imagination & The Transcendent Public Lecture Friday, April 12th at 7 PM | Washington 201 Join us for the next lecture in our Human Nature and Humanistic Endeavor series, presented by Douglas Hedley, Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge. Professor Hedley will discuss images of the Divine in C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces. This lecture will explore C.S. Lewis’s celebrated novel Till We Have Faces. The novel is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, but Lewis explores in it themes of imagination and the grounds of religious knowledge. The lecture will be delivered by Douglas Hedley, Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge, who has published many works on religion and the imagination. These include a trilogy of books: The Iconic Imagination, Living Forms of the Imagination, and Sacrifice Imagined. This lecture is co-sponsored by Reformed University Fellowship, and our Human Nature and Humanistic Endeavor series has been generously supported by the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy. RSVP

If you missed an earlier Cambridge House lecture this year, enjoy “Personalism and the Black Intellectual Tradition” by Dr. Angel Adams Parham on YouTube: