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Andrew Errington reviews David Bentley Hart’s The Doors of the Sea - Where was God in the Tsunami?
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Craig Josling reviews Ben Witherington III’s book Jesus and Money: A Guide for Times of Financial Crisis
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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
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
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
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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