The Faith and Society Lectures

Mark Meynell is an author and freelance speaker, and former European Director of Langham Preaching. In this episode, he draws on C.S. Lewis's wartime address "Learning in Wartime" to explore what faithful intellectual and cultural engagement looks like in times of crisis, considers how Lewis's insights apply to the war in Ukraine today, and asks how we as Christians ought to respond.

Professor Andrew Torrance is a Professor of Theology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. In this lecture, he makes a multi-faceted case for why science needs theology, and explores what is at stake for scientific inquiry when theology is left aside.

Professor Oliver O’Donovan is a leading Christian ethicist and political theologian, who has held professorial appointments at the University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh. In this lecture, he maps the proper boundaries of political theology and considers the Church’s role in public life.

Dr Oliver Langworthy is a Lecturer in Divinity at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He opens the Chalmers Institute Faith and Society Lectures by showing how the earliest Christian communities faced struggles much like our own with sincerity, and how their example offers the Church today hope and inspiration for living faithfully.