What is Secularism?
Here is the front page of the Secular Society’s website. It makes some important claims – for example, that secularism is…
Read MoreExtracts – Further Suggested Bible Passages
The syllabus suggests we study Ephesians 5 (see previous extract “wives obey your husbands”) and then the two extracts below. …
Read MoreExtract – Ephesians 5:22-33
Ephesians 5:22-33 – New International Version (NIV) 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord….
Read MorePresentation: Augustine on Human Nature
Aimee Horsley explains Augustine’s view of human nature – that we are all tainted by the Fall of humankind (Genesis 3) in the Garden of Eden, the curse of pain for women in childbirth, the existence of sexual lust and the idea of ‘dominion’ or power of men over women
Read MoreArticle – Hick’s Transcendental Pluralism
Exposition: A Brief Summary of Hick’s Pluralist Hypothesis source: Bradley Cochran https://theophilogue.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/hicks-philosphical-advocacy-for-pluralism__version-3d.pdf There are many general interpretations of religion. These have usually…
Read MoreReligious Pluralism and Salvation
source https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religious-pluralism/ Historically there has been one specific “diversity issue” with which philosophers have been most concerned: the question of the eternal…
Read MoreReligious Pluralism and Religious Language
An ontologically transcendent being is somehow distinct, separate, and different from everything else. “God is more distant from any creature than…
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