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.”
9:30 AM Lecture
1:00 PM Panel Discussion and Q&A
It has become very common recently to talk of the world as disenchanted and in need of re-enchantment. But what if the problem is more dramatic than that? What if the world is not merely disenchanted but positively desecrated? And what if this desecration, the delight in self-destruction, is the inevitable result of our self-understanding in modernity? In this lecture, we will see how the latter more accurately captures the human condition and points us towards a more satisfactory answer.
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. Carl Trueman
Carl R. Trueman is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge (M.A. in Classics) and Aberdeen (Ph.D. in Church History). He taught on the faculties of the Universities of Nottingham and Aberdeen before moving to the United States in 2001. In 2017–2018, he was a James Madison Visiting Fellow at Princeton University.
Since 2018, he has served as a professor at Grove City College, although for academic year 2025–26, he is on loan to the University of Notre Dame, where he is the Busch Family Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government. He is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in D.C. and a Contributing Editor at First Things. He is also an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
His books include John Owen: Reformed Catholic, Renaissance Man, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse, and The Desecration of Man, due in April 2026. He is married with two adult sons, a daughter-in-law, and a granddaughter.
