Center for Faith & Life Lecture: “Human History as Divine Drama” by Dr. James Spiegel

Date and time: February 13 @ 10:10 a.m.

Location: Skye Lounge, Student Center

Center for Faith & Life Executive Director, Dr. James Spiegel will give a lecture entitled “Human History as Divine Drama” on Friday, February 13 at 10:10 am in the Skye Lounge. This is the third of four lectures in the inaugural 2025-26 CFL Lecture Series. These lectures are based on Dr. Spiegel’s book project, A Thing of Beauty: How Everything is Art and Art is Everything, which will be published later this year by Cascade Press.

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).