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Developments in Christian Thought
Extract: Plato’s Charioteer as a picture of the soul
source What is a man? What sort of man should I be? What does it mean to live a good life?…
Read MoreExtract Doctrine Commission of Church of England “Mystery of Salvation”
In 1995 the Doctrine Commission report The Mystery of Salvation12 looked at some of the issues involved here. It suggested that:…
Read MoreExtract: Sharing the Gospel of Salvation
source 1. The unique significance of Jesus Christ 9. The basis for the Christian Church’s understanding of the unique significance of…
Read MoreAdvanced Article: Interpreting Tradition and Women Priests
Tradition, Hermeneutics, and Ordination By Francine Cardman from Sexism and Church Law edited by James A. Coriden 1977, pp. 58-81 published…
Read MoreVideo – 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…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
