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Extract – Evaluating Freud
source John F Kihlstrom, Personality, Chapter 8 But Is It True? This question can’t be answered without considering the various levels…
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…
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…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
