Socratic Club Speakers and Dates - To Accompany the Stella Aldwinckle Papers Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL Name(s) Lecture Title Date Notes Prof. Krner Science and Moral Responsibility ? Dr. Mason, Prof. Demant Marxian View of Religion ? Won't Mankind outgrow Christianity in R.E. Havard, M.D. the face of the advance of science January 26, 1942 and of modern ideologies? In Socratic Dr. William Stevenson Is God a wish-fulfilment? February 2, 1942 Digest Was Christ really any more than a Stella Aldwinckle, M.A. February 9, 1942 great teacher and prophet? W. B. Merchant, M.A. and C.S. Lewis, Scepticism and Faith. February 16, 1942 M.A. Is Christianity obscurantism hindering Lord Elton February 23, 1942 social progress? Are there any valid objections to free- In Socratic Charles Williams March 2, 1942 love? Digest Dr. L. W. Grensted Is prayer auto-suggestion? March 9, 1942 Some ambiguities in the use of the D. M. MacKinnon, M.A. April 29, 1942 word 'rational.' Is it rational to believe in a 'personal' Prof. W. G. De Burgh God? (postponed until May 27 due to May 6, 1942 illness of the speaker) Rev. A. M. Farrer and Prof. R. Eisler Did Christ rise from the dead? May 13, 1942 Can science render religion In Socratic Prof. H. A. Hodges May 20, 1942 unnecessary? Digest Is it rational to believe in a 'personal' Prof. W.G. De Burgh May 27, 1942 God? Has man a special place in the Dr. R. W. Kosterlitz June 3, 1942 universe? In Socratic Mr. J. Z. Young Purpose and design in nature. October 12, 1942 Digest Is a 'mechanistic' view of the universe Dr. Motz October 19, 1942 scientifically tenable? Mr. D. M. MacKinnon The concept of revelation. October 26, 1942 In Socratic Rev. A. M. Farrer How was Jesus divine? November 2, 1942 Digest Prof. E. O. James Christianity and other world faiths. November 9, 1942 Christianity and Aesthetics, or 'The Mr. C.S. Lewis November 16, 1942 Company accepts no liabilities.' Is Christian sexual morality narrow- In Socratic Fr. Gerald Vann, O.P. November 23, 1942 minded and out of date? Digest Does Christianity foreclose Mr. D. M. MacKinnon January 18, 1943 philosophical enquiry? Rev. F. C. Bryan What is prayer? January 25, 1943 In Socratic Prof. O. C. Quick Free-will and Predestination. February 1, 1943 Digest If we have Christ's ethics does the In Socratic Mr. C.S. Lewis February 8, 1943 rest of the Christian faith matter? Digest Fr. d'ARCY, S.J. Can the existence of God be proved? February 15, 1943 Dr. F. Sherwood-Taylor Science and Faith. February 22, 1943 Page 1 Name(s) Lecture Title Date Notes The political revelance of Christian Rev. Dr. V. A. Demant March 1, 1943 metaphysics. Is the New Testament reliable Fr. Kehoe, O.P. May 3, 1943 evidence? Rev. A. M. Farrer Immortality. May 10, 1943 Dr. R. Scott-Frayn. The Fall and the Unconscious. May 17, 1943 Dr. William Stephenson and Prof. L. W. In Socratic Conscience and moral freedom. May 24, 1943 Grensted Digest C.S. Lewis Anthropomorphism May 31, 1943 Prof. John MacMurray and Dr. Cosslett Marxism and Christianity. June 14, 1943 Dom B. C. Butler, O.S.B. Mysticism. June 21, 1943 In Socratic Dr. Falk and Mr. C.S. Lewis Morals without Faith. October 16, 1943 Digest In Socratic Fr. d'ARCY, S.J. Reason and Faith. October 25, 1943 Digest In Socratic Rev. A. M. Farrer Can we know that God Exists? November 1, 1943 Digest In Socratic Prof. L. W. Hodgson Christianity and Philosophy. November 8, 1943 Digest Mr. C.S. Lewis Science and Miracles. November 15, 1943 Mr. G. E. Harvey Buddhism. November 22, 1943 Fr. Kehoe, O.P. Inspiration in Art in Scripture. November 29, 1943 Mr. Pickard-Cambridge The Concept of Reason. January 17, 1944 Dr. C. E. M. Joad and Mr. C.S. Lewis On Being Reviewed by Christians January 24, 1944 Bulverism,' or The Foundations of In Socratic Mr. C.S. Lewis February 7, 1944 20th Century Thought. Digest Mr. J. K. White and Mr. G. B. Preston Materialism and Agnosticism. February 14, 1944 Mr. John Layard Christianity and Psycho-Neurosis. February 21, 1944 In Socratic Mr. Whitteridge Can Science provide our Ethics? February 28, 1944 Digest The Significance of Reinhold Niebuhr Mr. D. M. MacKinnon March 3, 1944 for Contemporary Thought. In Socratic Mr. J. K. Spalding Socrates. April 24, 1944 Digest P.D. Medawar, Austin Farrer "Explaining" the Universe May 1, 1944 Mr. L. Mannheim and Mr. G. H. L. Free-will and Determinism. May 8, 1944 Andrew In Socratic Prof. H. A. Hodges Philosophy To-day. May 15, 1944 Digest Concerning the Question : 'Jesus, In Socratic Stella Aldwinckle May 22, 1944 Prophet or Son of God'? Digest Rev. P. J. Thompson and Dr. Falk Duty and Delight. May 29, 1944 Mr. C.S. Lewis Is Institutional Christianity necessary June 5, 1944 In Socratic Prof. H. H. Price The Grounds of Modern Agnosticism October 23, 1944 Digest Dr. David Evans, Ph.D., and Rev. A. M. Is belief in a personal God compatible October 30, 1944 Farrer with modern scientific knowledge? In Socratic Mr. C.S. Lewis Is Theology Poetry? November 6, 1944 Digest Page 2 Name(s) Lecture Title Date Notes Prof. L. W. Grensted and Barbara Falk Has Psychology 'debunked' Sin? November 13, 1944 Similar title appears in Fr. Gerald Vann, O.P. Is Christian Sex-Morality out of date? November 20, 1944 1943 Socratic Digest Fr. d'ARCY, S.J. Rational and Irrational. November 27, 1944 In Socratic Dr. V. P. Whittaker Life and Matter. December 4, 1944 Digest Rev. J. N. D. Kelly The Gospels : History or Legend? Janaury 29, 1945 Michael Dalglish and Antony Curtis Poetry and Truth. February 5, 1945 Fr. R. Kehoe, O.P. Natural Law. February 12, 1945 Dr. F. Pringsheim and Dr. Mallik The Problem of Suffering February 19, 1945 Dr. E. Lambert and Mr. C.S. Lewis The Significance of Berdyaev February 26, 1945 It and Thou (Scientific Knowledge In Socratic Rev. Douglas Vicary March 5, 1945 and Personal Knowledge). Digest Rev. J. Hickenbotham and Fr. T. M. Justification by Faith. May 7, 1945 Parker Mr. D. M. MacKinnon Faith and History. March 12, 1945 Mr. C.S. Lewis Resurrection. May 14, 1945 Dr. Kramm Reason and Faith. May 21, 1945 In Socratic Rev. A. M. Farrer Can Myth be Fact? May 28, 1945 Digest In Socratic Rev. Gervase Mathew, O.P. Christian and non-Christian Mysticism June 4, 1945 Digest Mr. C.S. Lewis The Nature of Reason. October 15, 1945 Rev. A. Whitehouse The Nature of Faith. October 22, 1945 Rev. E. L. Mascall and Rev. John The Existence of God. October 29, 1945 Marsh Prof. L. Hodgson and a Unitarian Was Christ Divine? November 5, 1945 Prof. H. H. Price and Dr. A. M. Farrer Has Man a Soul? November 12, 1945 Dr. R. Eisler and Mr. Carritt Empirical Basis of Moral Obligation. November 19, 1945 Mr. A. Robertson and Prof. E. Marxist and Christian Views of the November 26, 1945 Cammaerts Nature of Man. Dr. David Evans The Atomic Bomb--and After. December 3, 1945 Mr. Shaw Desmond and Mr. C.S. Lewis Religion in the Post-War World. January 28, 1946 Mr. D. M. MacKinnon and Dr. D. Falk Morals and Religion February 4, 1946 Dr. C. H. Waddington and Dr. A. M. Can Science Provide a Basis for February 11, 1946 Farrer Ethics? Prof. L. W. Grensted Superstition and Faith. February 18, 1946 Dr. F. H. Heinemann and Mr. J. M. Reply to Historicism February 25, 1946 Urmson Hon. E. Plumer Rehabilitation - and then? March 4, 1946 Dr. Kosterlitz Religion and the Evolution of Man March 11, 1946 The Significance of Psychical G.L. Wilson May 6, 1946 Research G.E. Harvey Buddhism May 13, 1946 C.S. Lewis, H.H. Price Religion Without Dogma? May 20, 1946 J.L. Evans The Problem of Evil June 2, 1946 D.M. MacKinnon, D. Falk Morals and Religion. June 9, 1946 John Rosser Spiritualism as a Religion June 17, 1946 Page 3 Name(s) Lecture Title Date Notes Michael Foster, A.J. Ayer Belief and Reason in Philosophy. October 14, 1946 Friedrich Waismann The Limits of Positivism October 21, 1946 A.D. Howell-Smith, E.L. Mascall The Existence of God October 28, 1946 Arnold Lunn Is Progress Possible without Religion? November 4, 1946 R. Nicol Cross, T.M. Parker The Deity of Christ November 11, 1946 Frank Sherwood-Taylor Scientific World Outlook November 18, 1946 Lord Lindsay of Birker Kierkegaard December 2, 1946 The Objectivity of the Christian T.M. Parker, H.R. Trevor-Roper January 20, 1947 Revelation? Austin Farrer, R. Nicol Cross Is Dogma the Shackling of Thought? January 27, 1947 Douglas Vicary The Nature of Man February 10, 1947 Is Conscience More than a William Brown, J.C. Flugel February 17, 1947 Sociological Phenomenon? J.H. Scobell-Armstrong Is Pain Evil? February 24, 1947 Shaw Desmond Sex and Religion March 3, 1947 Richard Kehoe Myth, Pagan and Christian March 10, 1947 E.L. Mascall The Rationality of the Incarnation May 5, 1947 F.L. MacCarthy Losing One's Faith May 12, 1947 H.D. Lewis, C.S. Lewis Belief and Conduct May 19, 1947 Colin Hardie The Oedipus Myth May 26, 1947 J.N. Micklem Christianity and Other Faiths June 9, 1947 In Socratic Dr. A. M. Farrer and Mr. W. H. Walsh Does God Exist? October 13, 1947 Digest Mr. M. B. Foster Toynbee's Study of History.