Philosophy & the Christian: Seeking Wisdom in the Light of Christ

Join the Davenant House study center in the beautiful mountains of western SC for three days of rich conversation, fellowship, friendship, and learning. The plenary speaker will be Dr. James Eglinton, Meldrum Senior Lecturer in Reformed Theology at the University of Edinburgh.

Theme

Many are familiar with Tertullian’s ringing challenge to the Church: “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?” As far as this Church Father was concerned, philosophy and theology did not make comfortable bedfellows – and yet many Christians have answered his challenge with great success throughout the centuries.

But which philosophy are we talking about exactly? The Church has largely developed alongside Greco-Roman thinking, but is there one true philosophy which serves Christian theology? Should we beware of Greeks bearing gifts? And is it time for the Church to break free from philosophical categories, or embrace new ones altogether?

The Ninth Annual Convivium Irenicum will attend to such questions, and more. The Davenant Institute warmly invites proposals for presentations or guided discussions on the topic of how Protestantism can reclaim philosophy’s role as the “handmaiden of theology”.