The C. S. Lewis Society of Chattanooga will host another summer lecture this coming Tuesday at the Livingstone Cafe, 420 South Willow St. in Chattanooga. The coffee bar will open at 6:30 p.m. and the lecture will begin at 7 p.m.
The speaker will be Dr. Bryan Hampton, James D. Kennedy Distinguished Teaching Professor & senior associate head of the English Department at UTC. His topic will be: "A Jack & Two Johns: Bunyan, Milton and The Abolition of Man."
Organizers said, "The Abolition of Man is one of C.
S. Lewis's lesser-known books, but it anticipates the consequences of post-modernism's abandonment of objective values. In this lecture, Bryan Hampton will be addressing Lewis's ideas about the self while engaging two 17th-century writers whom Lewis knew well: John Bunyan and John Milton.
"At issue: Is the self its own authority, or does the self only become a truer self by submitting to something greater, better, more beautiful and truer than the self?"
The event is free and the public is invited to attend. More information about the cafe is available at www.thelivingstonecafe.org.
The "Lewis at the Livingstone" summer lectures are offered by the C. S. Lewis Society of Chattanooga, which is an arm of the Christian Study Center of Chattanooga; chattanoogastudycenter.org.