This year's annual UTC C. S. Lewis Lecture will be held on Monday at 7 p.m. in Derthick Hall, 201, on the UTC campus. The lecturer will be Dr. C. Ben Mitchell.
Dr. Mitchell is the recently retired Graves Chair of Moral Philosophy at Union University and is currently serving as Distinguished Fellow of the Tennessee Center for Bioethics & Culture.
The lecture is free and the public is invited.
The title of the lecture will be "Lewis and the Women Were Up to Something: Reading C. S. Lewis in the Context of the Oxbridge Revolution in Ethical Theory."
Many of Lewis's writings, including The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength, were framed by a seismic revolution in ethics, philosophy, and science in Oxford and Cambridge. Several pioneering women philosophers joined him in pushing back against the subversives. Dr. Mitchell seeks to enlarge our view of the swirling debates that provided the background for Lewis's concerns and provide an introduction of some of his allies in the fray.
The C. S. Lewis Lectureship was established in Chattanooga in 1983 by Charles Hummel of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to perpetuate the Christian and literary legacy of Clive Staples Lewis. The annual lecture is normally given during the month of March on the UTC campus. More information on the Lectureship and past recordings may be found here: lewisutclecture.com.
The Lectureship is co-sponsored by the C. S. Lewis Society of Chattanooga, which was founded in 2005. Information on the Society and contact information may be found here: cslewischattanooga.org.