Paul Nedelisky - The Engines of the Zeitgeist: How the Old Moral Knowledge Has Been Replaced

About this sermon

This is the final session of the 2023 Colloquium hosted by Westmont College to study and compare the ethical and moral writings of Dallas Willard and Dietrich von Hildebrand. Paul Nedelisky (Presenter) is an Assistant Director and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a professor of philosophy at James Madison University. He is also coauthor, with James Davison Hunter, of "Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality." His research interests center on issues in metaphysics and ethics. His work in metaphysics concerns the nature of the fundamental constituents of reality—the basic building blocks of the world. Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard (Commentator) is Professor of Humanities and History and holder of the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. He also serves as a Senior Fellow for the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts. Prior to coming to Valparaiso, he taught at Gordon College, where he founded and directed the Jerusalem and Athens Forum honors program and led the Center for Faith and Inquiry.