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Posts By: peter
Starter Activity – Three Blind Men and the Elephant
Does the Following Metaphor Adequately explain Religious Differences? Three blind men were touching an elephant. The first blind man was holding…
Read MoreHandout – Hick’s Religious Pluralism
source Three blind men were touching an elephant. The first blind man was holding the elephant’s leg. He said, “I think…
Read MoreExtract – Religionless Christianity, Bonhoeffer
A few more words about “religionless.” I expect you remember Bultmann’s essay on the “demythologizing” of the New Testament? My view…
Read MoreExtract – Religionless Christianity Bonhoeffer’s Letter from Prison
What is bothering me incessantly is the question what Christianity really is, or indeed who Christ really is, for us today….
Read MoreHandout – Bonhoeffer and Moral Action
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: His Relevance Today Understanding Bonhoeffer’s theology reminds us to consider: 1. Context – Bonhoeffer is described as a contextualist…
Read MoreExtract – An Open Letter to Mary Daly by Audre Lorde
The following letter was written to Mary Daly, author of Gyn/Ecology,* on May 6, 1979. Four months later, having received no…
Read MoreArticle – The Androgyny of Christ
The Androgyny of Jesus Virginia Mollencott source Radical feminist theologians feel that Christianity is so corruptly patriarchal that the entire system…
Read MoreExtract The Curse of Patriarchal Anthropology
Patriarchal anthropology has come perilously close to seeing women as the cause of sin in the world. From ancient to modern…
Read MoreArticle A Short History of Secularism in the West
source Secularism means that religious considerations are excluded from civil affairs. We live in a time when public secularism is something…
Read MoreSecularism – Quotes and Counter-points
“Acedia had been understood by earlier Christians as a ‘hatred of place and even life itself,’ as one desert father put…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
