What was the character of religion in the Victorian era?

The controversies surrounding Victorian religion involve technical issues of Biblical criticism, scientific discoveries and ecclesiastical tradition. All of these subjects, I propose, arise out of the central dilemma of essential, or spiritual, authority. This essay examines the forms of religious doubt that were experienced by Victorians and argues that the focal point for these concerns was

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Deep down we all desire a return from the dead.

The resurrection of Gandalf was one of the great moments in my reading childhood, and perhaps one of the most relieving scenes in modern fiction, and now cinema.The hobbits are not alone; the Balrog did not triumph; the great hope and security of Middle Earth is not lost, but is stronger than before. And more powerful, and more impressive, and more comforting than ever. Gandalf the Grey became Gandalf

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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!

Files:rl-bible-in-literature.pdf

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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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In his Acton Lecture, Professor Ian Harper presents a perspective on how the market and Christian theology mesh. Presented by the Centre for Independent Studies.

As a professing Christian and a practising economist, I have often found myself at odds with my co-religionists as well as my professional colleagues. For their part, my Christian brothers and sisters often find it hard to accept that someone who claims to follow the preacher of the Sermon

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What do we mean by ‘free speech’?

‘Freedom’ is notoriously frustrating to do business with. When it is missing, we really notice its absence; but when we have it, we enjoy it often without even noticing. Nobody doesn’t want freedom, yet when we talk about it and celebrate it we can find, to our dismay, that entirely different kinds of freedom are being spoken of.

We can see from the biblical quotations above how highly it figures there. But even

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