Steve Porter - The Effects of the Disappearance of Moral Knowledge on Virtue Acquisition

About this sermon

This is the second 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. Download Dr Porter’s Handout: https://dwillard.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/StevePorter-RoleOfKnowledgeInVirtueFormation.pdf Steve Porter (Presenter) is a Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director of the Martin Institute, and an affiliate Professor of Theology and Spiritual Formation at Biola University. He completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Southern California under Dallas Willard and M.Phil. in philosophical theology at the University of Oxford under Richard Swinburne. Steve teaches and writes in Christian spiritual formation, the doctrine of sanctification, the integration of psychology and theology, and philosophical theology. He has authored many books, is the editor of The Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, and is a co-editor of Dallas Willard’s final academic book: The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge. Adam Brown (Commentator) received his M.A. in Philosophy from the Talbot School of Theology and is currently pursuing an M.Div. on a scholarship while serving on staff at a PCA church in Orange, CA. He has a passion for phenomenology, virtue ethics, and spiritual formation from a Reformed perspective. One of his ongoing projects is recovering the biblical and spiritual priority of gentleness in an increasingly postmodern world.