The South Carolina Study Center

Dr. Stephen Evans is Emeritus University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Baylor University (in Waco, Texas), where he has taught since 2001. He received his BA from Wheaton College (Illinois) in 1969 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in philosophy in 1974 as a Danforth Fellow. His major areas of research include the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard, philosophy of religion, virtue ethics, and meta-ethics. His published works include 20 single-authored books as well as five edited volumes.

Doesn’t it sometimes seem like God could be more obvious? Why isn’t He? Come explore a few surprising answers to this question.

Dr. Joseph Minich (Ph.D, The University of Texas at Dallas) is a Teaching Fellow with The Davenant Institute, and the author of Enduring Divine Absence and Bulwarks of Unbelief.

In The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R Tolkien contrasts mere knowledge or “subtlety” (personified by Saruman) with “wisdom” (personified by Gandalf). The modern university has steadily transformed itself from an institution for training Gandalfs into one for training Sarumans. It is the urgent task for Christians in our generation to redeem it and present a renewed vision for scholarship in service of wisdom.

Dr. Bradford Littlejohn (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is the Founder and President of the Davenant Institute. He has published and lectured extensively in the fields of Reformation history, Christian ethics, and political theology.