Screwtape on Stage.
This looks like it is going to be really good.
Max Mclean is performing a stage adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ insightful book.
Amy and I are going.
You can check it out at the website. Here is the synopsis.
“Wickedly Witty” writes Terry Teachout, the chief theater critic for the Wall Street Journal of Max McLean’s New York theater production of the C.S. Lewis’ classic, The Screwtape Letters.
Set in an office in hell, C. S. Lewis’ play follows a senior devil, Screwtape, and his secretary, Toadpipe, as they train a new apprentice, Wormwood, on how to “undermine faith and prevent the formation of virtues” in a young man who has just converted to Christianity.
C. S. Lewis’ brilliant novel explores the spiritual warfare from a demons’ point of view. Beloved by both audiences and critics alike, The Screwtape Letters, with Max McLean, offers a humorous, thought-provoking and convicting theatrical experience that could ultimately change the way you think about the world of angels and demons.
This next one may not sound like a hot idea for date night. But I think it sounds fabulous!
There is a debate this Thursday evening on equality and subordination within the Trinity as it relates to men and women created in God’s image.
Here is the explanation –
Does a relationship of authority and submission really exist eternally among the persons of the Godhead? We know that while Jesus Christ walked the earth he was fully submitted to the Father, while remaining fully equal as God. But has he and will he forever be God, yet also ever in a relationship of submission to the Father?
It’s a very important question. While the commands of Scripture in Ephesians 5:22 for instance, referring to the distinct roles between men and women under God’s design are clear— they, as God’s Holy Word, need no further defense to be obeyed. Still, what beauty, what wonder, what glory remains to be seen as we peer into the relationship between God the Father and God the Son that the Scriptural authors open to us?
A question that arises out of the above debate is how does the relationship of the Godhead inform our relationships between the sexes? If equality of essence and distinction of roles exist eternally in the trinity, what a strong paradigm that provides for human relations between the genders.
Four evangelical scholars will consider the important question on the nature of the triune Godhead next month in a theological debate set for 7 p.m., Oct. 9 in the chapel at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) in Deerfield, Ill.
Defending the non-subordination view will be Tom McCall, Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at TEDS and Keith Yandell, who serves as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted scholars Wayne Grudem and Bruce Ware will represent the complementarian position which affirms that a structure of authority and submission will exist for eternity in the Godhead. Both Grudem and Ware are well-known across the evangelical world and both have published extensively on the gender issue.