High Holborn
London EC1N
UK
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.