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Posts By: peter
Video – Aquinas Theology of Women
In this clip Dr Matthew Taylor gives an interpretation of Genesis chapter 3 through the eyes of Thomas Aquinas, This veiw…
Read MoreExtract – Secular Morality and the New Atheism
source The New Athiests, such as Sam harris, Danuel Dennett and Richard Dawkins are not relativists. They believe in universal moral…
Read MoreArticle – Auguste Comte and Positivism
source Positivism or the Positive Philosophy The French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857) formulated a form of empiricism, which he called Positivism…
Read MoreArticle – Secularisation and Romanticism
The ‘secularization thesis’ states that religion declines as societies modernize. The characteristics of modernization are widely agreed upon, though different thinkers…
Read MoreSummary – Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age (2007)
source We all know we live in an age of secularism. Few of us have a philosophical and theological vocabulary which…
Read MoreExtract – A Summary of Charles Taylor’s Secularisation Thesis
source Charles Taylor reminds us that secularisation has several meanings – you can be a secular society where church and state…
Read MoreExtract – Vatican II on secularisation
In the Constitution on the Church in the World Today (1962): “The freedom of the Church is the fundamental principle in…
Read MoreExtract – Karl Rahner and Inclusivism
source Probably the best known Christian proponent of this inclusivist perspective is Karl Rahner. Christianity, he argues, cannot recognize any other…
Read MoreExtract – Willliam Alston Defends Exclusivism
source William Alston represents an even more charitable response to exclusivism. His perspective is based on what he sees as a…
Read MoreArticle – the Case for Christian Exclusivism
source In this article an evangelical Christian,Gary Crampton, sets out the Biblical and confessional case for Christian exclusivism – the view…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
