Dr. Jerry L. Walls will be speaking on the topics of "Contemporary issues in Heaven and Hell" and C.S. Lewis on Mere Purgatory"
Proposed Schedule:
9:00AM - Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:30AM - Prayer/Worship Service in Shelton Chapel...
10:00AM - Session I "Contemporary Issues in Heaven & Hell"
12:00PM -Lunch Break (vegetarian option available)
1:00 PM - Session II "C.S. Lewis on Mere Purgatory"
*At close of lecture, there will be opportunity for book signings
Dr. Jerry L. Walls is Scholar in Residence in the philosophy department at Houston Baptist University. He has authored or edited over a dozen books and over eighty articles and reviews. Among his books are: Hell: The Logic of Damnation (University of Notre Dame Press, 1992); Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy (Oxford University Press, 2002); Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation (Oxford University Press, 2012); and The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2008). His co-authored book with David Baggett, Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality (Oxford University Press, 2011) was named the best book in apologetics and evangelism by Christianity Today in their annual book awards in 2012.