Edward Said invents some goals.

His book reexamines and reformulates humanism in 21st Century academic and political spheres. Damage was done to the study of humanism by structuralists and poststructuralists, especially the works of French theorists like Foucault and Barthes, who, continuing from Nietzsche, Freud and Marx, brought about the depersonalisation of the individual artist and author. Furthermore, over the past few decades, the humanities

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Hear Greg Clarke, Chris Forbes and Peter Bolt at a CASE Easter forum on the historical Jesus.
Free download (8.74MB; 1:16:24).

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Why the Christian outlook on families is much more than "joining with the Force"

Ironically, the people in this country who most revere that mother-and-child bond are fundamentalist Christians, who make huge sacrifices so that moms can stay home with their children. Many of them home-school their children, because they’re convinced that mothers are the best teachers of children and that the public school system in America immerses kids in cultures

Liberty, equality, fraternity…but what have they become? Gordon Menzies explores the consequences of pursuing Western ideals.

The cry ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’ has come to represent all that the Enlightenment aspired to. But how well has it travelled over the past few centuries, and what would today’s three-fold catchcry be? Gordon Menzies posits a Christian view.

Files: menzies-core-western-values.pdf

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Scientists wrestle with philosophy; theologians struggle with biology. The contemporary attempt to integrate these fields still has a long way to go.

To what extent do the biological/ neurobiological sciences help us understand issues of personhood and soul? To some, the answer is obvious: entirely. It is increasingly common to find cognitive scientists claiming not only that neurology is everything and consciousness simply one property of brain

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Are adults are too old to change their ways and embrace Christ as Lord?

Conversion to Christianity has long fascinated me. What is it that causes such a profound change in a person’s thinking and way of life that we say they have been ‘converted’ from one kind of person into another? The Gospel language for such a change is ‘born again’, a term now so politicised as to obscure its powerful evocation of a fresh start.

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CASE ran a conference on Humans and Machines on 25-28 November 2004. Greg Clarke gave an opening address on ‘Imagining the Human Future’ (4.79 MB; 41:51).

Here is a valuable article from Tim Keller, senior minister at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, on the kinds of beliefs which prevent people from hearing the Christian message. There are plenty of intersections here with the attractive apologetics approach of CASE.

Every culture hostile to Christianity holds to a set of ‘common-sense’ consensus beliefs that automatically make Christianity seem implausible to people. These are what

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David Starling offers these notes from the diary of a pastor on what to make of the Mel Gibson passion film.

The violence
As everyone had warned me, it was a violent film - much more violent than I’m used to watching at the movies. Parts of the film I just couldn’t watch. In other parts, I had to keep reminding myself that this was a film, not the real thing, that the actor was just an actor and the blood was just make-up. Nevertheless, the fact

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How does a Christian ethicist rate the Australian government’s performance on asylum seekers?

In April and May 2004, a row erupted in Australia between the officers of three courts, and a Federal Government Minister. At the centre of the dispute were five detained children. Then in May, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission presented a report on its enquiry into children in detention in Australia. The dispute and the report highlight

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