Center for Faith & Life Lecture: “Divine Art and Human Emotion” by Dr. James Spiegel

Date and time: December 3 @ 7 p.m.

Location: John White Chapel - Old Main

God is the creator of all things and the source of all beauty. This means God is fundamentally an artist, and the entire cosmos and everything that happens in it is his artwork. In this second installment of Dr. Spiegel’s lecture series, Dr. Spiegel explores the emotional power of art and what this means for our understanding of God and how we relate to him. 

Dr. James Spiegel, Director of Geneva College Center for Faith & Life

James S. Spiegel (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is Executive Director of the Geneva College Center for Faith & Life. He has taught at Taylor University, Hillsdale College, and Indianapolis Theological Seminary and has published eleven books and over 100 articles and book chapters.

His publications, which primarily explore issues in ethics, philosophy of religion, and virtue epistemology, have appeared in such scholarly journals as Philosophia, Metaphilosophy, Faith and Philosophy, Sophia, Science and Engineering Ethics, and the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion as well as popular periodicals such as Christianity Today, First Things, The Federalist, and Touchstone.

Spiegel’s books include The Benefits of Providence (Crossway), Faith, Film, and Philosophy (InterVarsity), Hell and Divine Goodness (Cascade), and the two-volume Idealism and Christianity series (Bloomsbury Press). He is currently working on a book entitled A Thing of Beauty: How Everything is Art and Art is Everything (Cascade).