2023 Conference Highlights: Higher Ed. - Responding to the Inevitable Unravelling of Higher Education - Greg Jesson

2023 Conference Highlights: Higher Ed. - Responding to the Inevitable Unravelling of Higher Education - Greg Jesson

The forth and final of our interim 'conference highlights' series, Professor Greg Jesson asks how we should define and respond to the great shifts in higher education.

Greg recently retired from teaching philosophy at Luther College and the University of Iowa. He was also the Director of the Center for Ethics and Public Life at Luther College.

Greg’s long journey from Los Angeles to Iowa took him to Switzerland where he studied philosophy at L’Abri with Francis Schaeffer, to UCLA where he finished his undergraduate degree in philosophy, to USC where he completed an MA in philosophy under Dallas Willard, and finally to the University of Iowa where he received a PhD in philosophy.

 

The Rochester L'Abri Conference 2023.

G.K Chesterton once wrote “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” And passing the baton onto the next generation has always been part of the Biblical mandate. Evangelicals have long wrestled with good models for educating minors, but arguably the greater challenge today is in higher education, and, equally, if we are to ‘disciple the nations’, then the Church’s role in shaping the mind of believers more generally is a critical issue. At this year’s Conference, we want to look at all aspects of a Christian approach to Education - its motives, methods and models.