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The Fifth Annual John Warwick Montgomery Lecture in Evidential Apologetics

“Old Testament Ethical Challenges, the Image of God, and Its Contemporary Relevance”

Approaching certain biblical texts—especially Old Testament passages on warfare and servitude–may create challenges or tensions or even seem to be in conflict with the doctrine of the imago Dei. Yet upon closer scrutiny, that core Scriptural affirmation of human dignity is not thereby lessened or undermined. This doctrine also has important relevance for our modern world. Although foundational to Western civilization’s convictions about inalienable human dignity, equality before the law, and other democratizing values, this biblical emphasis on dignity is being relativized, downgraded, and/or undermined altogether. Gospel-oriented Christians are called to speak with a prophetic voice and to undertake bold, practical initiatives to reaffirm and preserve these convictions.

Paul Copan (Ph.D., Philosophy, Marquette University) is the Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, Florida. He teaches in the M.A. in Philosophy of Religion at PBA, which offers an undergraduate degree in Christian Apologetics. He served as president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society for six years and is author or editor of over 40 books, which have been translated into over a dozen languages. Dr. Copan is currently Chair of the Tyndale Fellowship Philosophy of Religion Study Group (UK). He and his wife, Jacqueline, have six children and reside in West Palm Beach, Florida.

To learn more about Paul Copan, visit his website: www.paulcopan.com