David Bentley Hart’s latest work is ostensibly a response to the ‘New Atheists’ who loom so large on the contemporary apologetic horizon. Hart has little time for the likes of Dennett, Hitchens and Harris, whose arguments he describes as being ‘pursued at only the most vulgar of intellectual levels.’ However, Hart has more than rhetoric here. The first and second sections of the book present a devastating demolition of several key pillars

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Globalisation is one of the most characteristic features of our world, and it has far-reaching implications. Despite this, discussions of globalisation frequently reduce it to an economic phenomenon.  In this article, Erin Glanville examines globalisation in the light of Christianity, and asks how Christians can harness its potential for good.

If Christians want to live faithfully in the world they need to ask: What time is it? Where are we at in

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Guy Brandon is a researcher at the Jubilee Centre (http://www.jubileecentre.org). This organisation seeks to advance a social agenda which is simultaneously true to the Bible, beneficial for everyone in contemporary society, and persuasive to non-Christians. Consistent with this, Just sex explodes the popular myth that sex is merely a private act between two consenting adults. Drawing on psychological, social, financial and demographic data, Brandon

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In the editorial for Case 18, Trevor Cairney summarises some of the major themes across all articles in this issue and discusses the importance of architecture and planning in the city.

When police broke into an apartment in Sydney in January 2008 and found the decomposed body of 61-year-old Jorge Coloma, there was much community discussion of how his absence could have gone unnoticed for over a year. He had died from natural causes. No one

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In the 4th edition of this important book, John Stott continues to urge Christians to engage with ethical issues, including new issues in bioethics.

The past 20 years has seen a growing interest among evangelical Christians in developing biblical responses to ethical and social issues. One of the leading evangelicals who has long argued for greater engagement with our society through presenting Christian perspectives on social issues is John Stott,

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Byron Smith picks up on the environmental theme that was the focus of Case 11 and offers a challenging biblical analysis of the looming crisis in oil production.

Most oil-producing nations have peaked in their production of oil. Byron Smith argues that Christians need not adopt the polar myths of infinite growth or scarcity, nor the greed that often lies behind them.

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Our ability to manipulate the unborn human has created unprecedented ethical problems.

In this recent article Megan Best gives an updated assessment of stem cell research. Our recently acquired ability to manipulate the unborn human has created ethical problems which have no precedent.  Medical technologies are developing quickly, and legislation to allow an expansion of the opportunities available to our scientists is regularly before the

An article on economic theory and marriage in light of the Christian worldview.

Donald Hay and Gordon Menzies compare economic and biblical covenant descriptions of what marriage is in this article.

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Nicole Starling reviews what has been an influential book for her family.

Noël Piper’s, Treasuring God in Our Traditions (Wheaton: Crossway, 2003). The book considers at a very practical level the development of Christian family traditions. In the context of an avowedly post-Christian society, ‘family traditions’ have a function that is more critical than ever before, both within our families and in our mission to the wider society.

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Aligning biblical wisdom and research.

In this article Trevor Cairney considers how closely research evidence and biblical wisdom are aligned and concludes that there is much that they have in common.

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