Persuasion Post-Christendom: Insights from Psychology, Antiquity, and Scripture - John Dickson

Interacting with both recent and ancient accounts of rhetoric, this talk attempts to set the theme of Christian persuasion on a strong biblical foundation. Specifically, Aristotle’s influential work on the topic will be brought into conversation with Scripture to provide a positive framework for Christian engagement in a sceptical world.

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John Dickson’s story is eclectic. Starting out as a professional singer-songwriter, he now works as an author, speaker, historian, and media presenter. He was the Founding Director of the Centre for Public Christianity (2007-17). He has published over 20 books, two of which became television documentaries, with a third, For the Love of God: How the Church is Better and Worse Than You Ever Imagined, released in Australian cinemas in June 2018. John has held a variety of teaching and research positions before moving to Wheaton College, including in the Ancient History Department at Macquarie University (2002-2015), the Hebrew, Jewish, and Biblical Studies Department at Sydney University (2011-2021), Ridley College Melbourne (2019-2022), and the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford (2015-2023). A busy public speaker, he lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife Elizabeth and the youngest of their three children.

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