What Is the Secular | Interviewing Craig Carter
Channel: Henry Center
Date: 2022-09-12

Lecture Title - Augustine and the Secular in Christendom and Modernity

This lecture addressed the growing relevance of Augustine in debates concerning secular space. Particular attention is given to how Augustine's City of God delineates a positive conception of secular space and its role in civil society. A distinction between Augustinianism and Triumphalism is made to differentiate Augustine's conception of the secular from the secularism and statism of many modern statist projects. 

Craig A. Carter (PhD University of St. Michael’s College) is Research Professor of Theology at Tyndale University. He is author of Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective (Brazos Press, 2007), Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis (Baker Academic, 2018), and Contemplating God with the Great Tradition: Recovering Trinitarian Classical Theism (Baker Academic, 2021).