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The Spring 2024 Messinger-Williams Family Community Education Initiative at Hood Theological Seminary

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The Question of God

C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life

The Question of GodReading: The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life (The Free Press, 2003) by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, Jr.

Many persons today find themselves caught up in the cross pressure of two rival worldviews. One views faith and religion as essential to being human. The other sees such things as delusions and signs of intellectual immaturity.

In the first half of the 20th century, these two worldviews were expertly represented by C.S. Lewis, one of the Christian faith’s greatest expositors, and Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis and architect of modern atheism.

The acclaimed book The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life (The Free Press, 2003) places their perspectives side-by-side so readers can easily evaluate and discuss them.

The Spring 2024 Messinger-Williams Community Education Initiative will be devoted to a five-week study of The Question of God. Participants will explore such topics as the existence of God, the source of morality, what makes human life worth living, the meaning of suffering, and whether death is our only destiny.

Participation Options

Join a discussion group
Join an in-person or Zoom discussion group, led by Dr. Trevor Eppehimer of Hood Theological Seminary, that meets one hour per week during the course of the study.

Organize your own discussion group
Use distributed reading guides to explore The Question of God with co-workers, neighbors, family, and friends.

Read independently
Use distributed reading guides to work through The Question of God on your own.

Five-Week Schedule

Week One (2/26-3/1):
Is There an Intelligence Beyond the Universe?
Reading: The Question of God, pp. 36-56.

Week Two (3/4-3/8)
Is There a Universal Moral Law?
Reading: The Question of God, pp. 57-75.

Week Three (3/11-3/15):
What is the Source of Our Greatest Enjoyment in Life?
Reading: The Question of God, pp. 97-125.

Week Four (3/18-3/22):
How Can We Resolve The Problem of Suffering?
Reading: The Question of God, pp. 187-215.

Week Five (3/25-3/29):
Is Death Our Only Destiny?
Reading: The Question of God, pp. 216-239.


Questions? Want more details? Send email to teppehimer@hoodseminary.edu

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The Messinger-Williams Community Education Initiative at Hood Theological Seminary

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