A reading list on this topic to get you started.

The following books provide a range of material on the subject of human hope. CASE welcomes reviews and comments on these books. They are presented for reflection, education and critical analysis—not as a canon of must-reads. Please read with your eyes open and brain engaged!

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A reading list to get you started thinking about this topic

The following books provide a range of material on the relationship between the Bible and literature written in English. CASE welcomes reviews and comments on these books. They are presented for reflection, education and critical analysis—not as a canon of must-reads. Please read with your eyes open and brain engaged!

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In 1993, a novel called The Hand That Signed the Paper won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and then the prestigious Miles Franklin Award in 1995. The novel reveals the atrocious acts of two brothers, Vitaly and Evheny Kovalenko, in the Ukraine during World War II. The brothers joined the SS and went about humiliating, torturing and exterminating Jews, convinced they were administering vengeance for years of hardship caused under the Jewish

How well does the New Testament stand up to historical scrutiny? This new edition of a classic book contains fresh material comparing the Koran and the New Testament, exploring the nature of history writing, and more on the resurrection.

For people who doubt whether the message of Christianity in the Bible is a true record of history, or want to know how strong are the historical foundations of the faith, this is the book to get you started. In the

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This is a lucid and learned overview from one of Australia’s eminent academics in the area of philosophy of religion. Max Charlesworth was professor of philosophy at Deakin University and has written extensively on bioethical issues and on Australian Aboriginal religions. In this book, a rewrite of his 1972 volume, Charlesworth provides a ‘grid’ of the various relations between reason and religion since the ancient Greeks.

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Dr Darrel Falk, Professor of Biology at Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, and author of Coming to Peace with Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology, gave two lectures in June 2006. These were joint lectures with ISCAST:

• 14 June: Intelligent Design: Can we use the tools of science to explore the realm of faith?
• 15 June: On Bridge-Building: Coming to Peace with Biology in an Age of Intelligent Design and Young Earth

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