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Pope Frances actively sought Gustavo Gutierrez’s advice in writing his encyclical on the environment Laudato Si (2015). Contrast the words of…
Read MoreExtract 8 – Karl Barth’s Interpretation of the Ontological Argument
‘For I do not seek to understand that I may believe (intelligere ut credam) but I believe in order to understand…
Read MoreExtract – Bertrand Russell’s Criticism of the Forms
II. A Critique In Bertrand Russell’s The History of Western Philosophy (New York: Simon Schuster, 1972), pp.126-130. (NB: The word “idea” can be…
Read MoreSuggested Reading – John McQuarrie and Panentheism
source Panentheism (Greek pan which means “all,” en which means “in,” and theos which means “God”) is the position that God is greater than the universe, that…
Read MoreSuggested Reading – Matthew 19:23-26
23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of…
Read MoreExtract Julia Annas Theory of the Forms
source Chapter 9 The ‘Theory’ of Forms Knowledge, then, has Forms as objects, though nothing so far implies that knowledge is…
Read MoreExtract – Purpose of Plato’s Republic Julia Annas
source One very widespread way of interpreting the Republic is to see Plato as concerned mainly or exclusively with the task…
Read MoreExtract – Sermon on the Mount
5 Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, 2 and he…
Read MoreExtract – The Need for Reflection in Christian Ethics
source The naively mythical understanding of the place of God in ethical theory, which implies that the morally relevant function of…
Read MoreExtract – Catholic Catechism on Morality
Article 4 THE MORALITY OF HUMAN ACTS 1749 Freedom makes man a moral subject. When he acts deliberately, man is, so to…
Read MorePractise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
