Lecture: 9:30 AM Eastern
Panel Discussion and Q&A Session: 1:00 PM Eastern
Theology, long considered the queen of the sciences, has been dethroned and decentralized in most academic institutions today. Is theology truly central to human learning? What is the proper place of theology in the academy and in our own educations and lives? Properly understood, all human learning stands underneath the study of God, because the study of God is the highest form of knowledge and provides the framework, justification, and constitutive essence of every other discipline. The study of all aspects of the created order reveals Christ, the Telos for whom all things were made and the Logos in whom all things hold together.
Our goal at Patrick Henry College is to equip young leaders who will lead for the glory of God and the good of those who follow.
What is Faith & Reason at Patrick Henry College?
The Faith & Reason lecture is a time-honored PHC tradition of gathering together as a campus community to consider the shape and contour of important topics as presented by faculty and guest lecturers.
The Faith & Reason lectures are presented to our campus community—one per semester—as springboards for conversations that move from the lecture hall to the dining commons to the dorm rooms, becoming a part of our campus conversations.
The ability to think carefully through complex topics is an important component of civil discourse. We grow individually and as a community, as we wrestle with and debate the merit of the ideas presented. We do all of this with a spirit of humility and charity and with the recognition that “iron sharpens iron.”
About Dr. Graedon Zorzi
Dr. Zorzi is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Patrick Henry College, specializing in early modern moral, political, and religious thought. His research focuses on theological anthropology and the foundations of liberalism.
Prior to joining the faculty, he spent two years as Assistant Professor of Theology and Philosophy at George Fox University. His dissertation won the 2021 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise and was awarded University Distinction at Yale as well as Departmental Distinction in both the Political Science and Religious Studies departments. His recent writing on the Christian origins of classical liberalism has been published in The Historical Journal, The Review of Politics, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hill.
Dr. Zorzi spent time as a visiting graduate student studying government at Georgetown University and theology at Oxford University. He is an ordained pastor, resident in the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic of the Anglican Church in North America. He holds an M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, as well as an M.Phil., an M.A. in Political Science and Religious Studies, and a Ph.D. from Yale University.
