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First Things and The Covenant School invite you to
a First Things Lecture presented by Elizabeth Corey.

Achievement and the Christian Life

In today’s middle-class American culture, the pressure to achieve is overwhelming. Schools, both secular and religious, are seen as the primary vehicle for such achievement. We encourage students to push themselves relentlessly toward excellence in academics, extracurriculars, and volunteer work, in hopes of gaining admittance to prestigious colleges and graduate schools before transitioning into lucrative or socially consequential careers.

Yet the extraordinary focus on cultivating the “self” that is required for such achievement, as well as the competition that is inevitable in the pursuit of it, can be both dispiriting and corrupting. In many ways, this orientation is directly opposed to the virtues that are valued in Christian life. In this lecture Elizabeth Corey will consider whether there might be an alternative way for Christians to think about both their desires to achieve things of consequence and also to live lives that are ultimately oriented “for others” and toward God.


Achievement and the Christian Life, delivered by Elizabeth Corey
a First Things Lecture

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WHEN:
7:00pm
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

WHERE:
The Covenant School (directions)
Rhetoric Building, 3rd Floor
7300 Valley View Lane
Dallas, TX 75240

Entrance to school accessed from westbound LBJ I-635 service road

Established in 1993, The Covenant School mission is to equip students with the tools necessary to pursue a lifetime of learning so that they may discern, reason and defend truth in service to our Lord, Jesus Christ. For more information about Covenant, please click here.



Elizabeth C. Corey is associate professor of political science at Baylor University. She joined the faculty of Baylor’s Honors Program in 2007 and became its Program Director in 2015. She earned a B.A. in classics from Oberlin College, an M.A. in art history from Louisiana State University (LSU), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from LSU. She has taught courses in Great Texts and Political Science as well as in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core. Her book, Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics, was published by the University of Missouri Press in 2006. She served as President of the Michael Oakeshott Association, and in 2009 hosted the Association’s meetings at Baylor. She continues to pursues a variety of interdisciplinary research interests, from the educational and political thought of Oakeshott and Eric Voegelin to the art and politics of eleventh-century Italy.


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