Equality in the Hot Seat: A Promising Idea That Fails to Deliver

Online course with Dr. Vivek Mathews & Rev. Dr. Ryan O’Dowd

January 6th, 7th, 20th, 21st
8pm – 9pm ET
Remotely via Zoom

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The Chesterton House on-campus Logos seminar discussions are an award-winning and unique educational experience in Christian higher education, guiding students through flashpoints of contemporary cultural debates in conversation with historic Christian intellectual traditions. This course will give our online-only audience an abbreviated taste of those discussions, specially geared for our alumni and supporters around the world. The discussions will be led by our Executive Director Vivek Mathew and Academic Director Ryan O’Dowd.

This year, our thematic center has been equality. The idea of equality has modern incarnations that attempt to protect human dignity and achieve a more just distribution of created goods within a world of fallen creatures and broken economic systems. But how did this modern idea of equality come about? How did it come to take center place in our moral ecology? And how does it compare with older Biblical ideals, and historic Christian intellectual foundations? This short course will briefly survey how equality in its modern guise became the reigning starting point for guiding moral and political thought, from both within Christian internal debates as well as secular challenges to Christian ethics. The course will bring together a combination of Biblical passages and theological and philosophical readings for our reflection, from patristics to contemporary analytic philosophers and theologians, including both Christian and non-Christian perspectives. It does not aim to settle final questions or positions in the debates, but provide an intellectual and conceptual framework to orient them.

This online-only course will have a limited number of registration spots, so register today if you are interested.

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