This March, the 2014 Midwest meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers met together with the Society of Continental Philosophy and Theology at Trinity College in Palos Heights, IL. The theme of the joint conference was “What is Christian Philosophy?” and was chosen in honor of the 30th anniversary of the publication of Alvin Plantinga’s “Advice to Christian Philosophers.” The conference was a great success and was filled with extremely impressive and original papers. The full program can be found here. During the conference, there were also a series of invited talks by thinkers who approached the theme from a variety of perspectives, traditions, and methodologies. Thankfully, the host institution had those invited talks filmed and they have recently been made available on youtube. I am pleased to be able to provide links to those talks here. I am sure that you will find them provocative, and critically engaging. What results is a conversation across the talks that opens new ground for the future of Christian philosophy and asks critical questions about the ground that Christian philosophy has covered.
Bruce Ellis Benson, “The Two-fold Task of Christian Philosophy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vc7wgymr2c&feature=youtu.be
Alvin Plantinga, “Augustinian Christian Philosophy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViFkHVmokOM&feature=youtu.be
J. Aaron Simmons, “The Strategies of Christian Philosophy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkkpLF9KwmE&feature=youtu.be
Adriaan Peperzak, “Faith in Philosophy or Philosophy in Faith”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h2BCIwRKAA&feature=youtu.be
Charles Taliaferro, “Philosophy in Light of the Person of Jesus”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYQgELjIDNM&feature=youtu.be
Jay Wood, “Humility’s Intellectual Rewards”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFXQgiiU4LU&feature=youtu.be
Greg Clark, “Too Small to Notice”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mRPDOu693Y&feature=youtu.be