What Would Jesus Do? Christian Culture Wars in the Modern West

Christian Culture Wars in the Modern West Europe and North America are now marginal in global Protestant Christianity, but they remain the vital test-bed of how this religion and post-industrial society can, or cannot, adapt to each other. This lecture will explain how, following the moral trauma of the Second World War, Christianity has produced both a bold, sometimes self-defeating liberalism, and also a newly assured but politically compromised conservatism; and explore the deep continuities connecting the two, and how they continue to shape the contemporary world.

This is a free public lecture by Alec Ryrie, Visiting Gresham Professor in the History of Religion.

There is no need to book in advance for this lecture. It runs on a first come first served basis.