Video: I Could Be Wrong: Intellectual & Cultural Humility in a Polarized World

How can Christians embody Jesus’ humility in our current cultural, political, religious, and institutional climates? Our 2023-2024 Public Theology series focuses on Christian humility in conversation with Dean Dennis Edwards’ forthcoming book, Humility Illuminated: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character, and in response to the Christ hymn of Philippians 2.

How can we hold strong convictions with openness and grace in an increasingly polarized world? In this discussion, a philosopher and intercultural practitioner examine how intellectual and cultural humility can help us recognize our own finitude and bridge seemingly insurmountable divides.

Ismael Ruiz-Millán moved to North Carolina from his hometown in Mexico in 2003, where he has served as a Methodist pastor, director of the Hispanic House of Studies at Duke Divinity School, and district superintendent. He has developed classes, seminars, workshops, and learning opportunities on Cultural Humility and Leadership. Ismael is currently a PhD student at Eastern University in Pennsylvania.

Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. She has published and lectured extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her latest book, The Image of God: The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning, was published in 2022. She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Philosophers in Jesuit Education, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the American Philosophical Association, Central Division.