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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The German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) created a paradigm shift in both science and theology. His theory that the mind plays an active role in constructing objective experience created a ‘Copernican revolution’ in epistemology by placing the human subject at the centre of epistemological inquiry. Kant’s work also represented a watershed in theology and apologetics. He famously asserted that while we cannot objectively demonstrate

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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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Associate Professor Robert Stening reviews Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe

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Clive Hamilton is well-known for his radical critique of Western capitalism and consumerism. Kamal Weerakoon reviews his latest book The Freedom Paradox, in which Hamilton argues for an alternative basis for social interaction. Clive Hamilton’s thesis is that to be truly free humans must live in accord with our ‘moral self ’. However, as Kamal Weerakoon argues in his review, an autonomously-derived morality cannot deliver true freedom. (See

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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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Professor Jeremy Begbie has spent most of the last 20 years seeking to redress this deficiency. As a respected Christian theologian and a musician of considerable ability and reputation, Begbie has published a series of books and articles in which he has sought to fuse together some of ‘the best musical thinking about theology and the best theological thinking about music.’ His latest book,Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of

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Dr Megan Best reviews this volume by respected scientist Dr Francis Collins.

The interface of faith and science is often discussed by passionate Christians and scientists who have poor understandings of their opponents’ subject. It was therefore with anticipation that I began reading this volume, written by a man with a foot in each camp, intent on instructing both sides about how they could get along with the other.

Dr Francis Collins, a

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A piece on the relationship of money to happiness-a review of Ross Gittins’ book Gittinomics that considers the impact of heightened materialism on society.

Roberta says in her introduction "It’s somewhat ironic that my first contribution to Case is to review a book about a subject I’ve consciously avoided for most of my life—economics."

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Larissa Johnson reviews "In Defense of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Assessment".

David Hume was an eighteenth century philosopher whose arguments against religion are commonly believed to have sounded the death knell for natural theology, which can be defined as the attempt to find rational justification for a belief in God from reason and the natural world. In Defense of Natural Theology is offered as a direct confrontation to Hume’s legacy,

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