Lectures

Humility as the Crux of Christian Teaching: Insights from St. Augustine

For Augustine of Hippo (354-430), Christian teachers who surrender self in loving humility for the sake of their hearers capture a core dimension of the faith that they teach. The same humility that Christ models, that Scripture communicates, and that seekers germinate as they come to be taught, teachers also share in.

In this public lecture, renowned Augustine scholar Dr. Michael Cameron explores the pedagogical dynamics of humility in Augustine’s great treatise, De catechizandis rudibus (On the Instruction of Beginners), showing it to be the treatise’s hidden crux, in two senses: both as a central theme of Christian teaching, and, paradoxically and counterintuitively, as the mainspring of the teaching act.

This lecture was co-hosted with the Religion and Philosophy Department at Hillsdale College on October 9, 2023.

Attaining to the Full Stature of Christ, with Rev. Prof. John Behr, Dr. Natalie Carnes, and Dr. Thomas Breedlove

Fr. John Behr on Gregory of Nyssa and theological anthropology, with responses from Natalie Carnes and Thomas Breedlove. Hosted at Baylor University’s Truett Seminary, with the Wesley House, St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, and the Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion.

Bruch Hindmarsh on Catechesis and the Spirit of Early Evangelicalism

Bruch Hindmarsh on Catechesis and the Spirit of Early Evangelicalism

An interview with Dr. Bruce Hindmarsh, James M. Houston Chair of Spiritual Theology and Professor of History of Christianity at Regent College, on his 2018 book, The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism, with Oxford University Press, and how the early evangelicals can help us think about the task of catechesis in the modern world.