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Extract – 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 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 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 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 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 MoreExtract – God Returns to Europe
source The highbrow monthly Prospect put it more bluntly in its November cover story: “God returns to Europe.” One might cheekily…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
