Events

You’re invited to Regent's 2024 Evening Public Lecture series! Join us in the chapel or tune in online to explore theology, culture, and much more with this year’s summer faculty.

To livestream this and other Evening Public Lectures, visit us at rgnt.net/live.

About the Lecture

C. S. Lewis famously spoke of fleeting experiences of “joy” he had early in life, describing a longing for something agonisingly elusive, something this finite world cannot offer: “a half-remembered realm from which we are currently exiled.” Jeremy Begbie will explore the ways this has been expressed and explored through music, and compare this pre-Christian unfulfilled desire with Christian hope.

About the Speaker

Jeremy Begbie is the Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School, and McDonald Agape Director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts. He teaches systematic theology, and specializes in the interface between theology and the arts. He is Senior Member at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge. His books include Theology, Music and Time (CUP); Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music (Baker/SPCK); Music, Modernity, and God (OUP); and Abundantly More (Baker). He has taught widely in the UK and North America, and delivered multimedia performance-lectures in many parts of the world.

Dr. Begbie is teaching The Holy Spirit & the Arts from July 29 to August 2 as part of Regent’s 2024 Summer Programs.

Onsite and Online

You can attend this lecture in Regent’s chapel, or watch it live online at rgnt.net/live. A video recording will be available for free online for a limited time after the event.