Few questions engage the human mind and have such timeless relevance as those to do with the origin and purpose of life. Seeking to answer such questions inevitably brings to the fore numerous disciplines—cosmology, biology, mathematics, geology, philosophy—and it therefore presents as a daunting task to comprehensively interact with, let alone challenge, the mainstream schools of thought. In his book God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

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From Case magazine, a look at the facts and the rhetoric behind Kinsey the man and the recent film.

The recent film about the work of sex researcher, Alfred Kinsey, has thrown a spotlight on the ethical dimensions of such research, especially on the practice of observing sexual behaviour.

It has also highlighted the rhetoric by which the research is presented. In this article, we consider the claims of the movie and what is known about Kinsey and

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What are the different ethical positions on using embryonic stem cells? Megan Best reviews the Australian debate of the past few years.

I expect that most readers were aware of the stem cell debate that continued through 2002. It culminated in the passing of federal legislation that decided the fate of excess human embryos which are stored in assisted reproductive technology (ART) labs around the country. The public debate surrounding the

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How is biblical eschatology to be interpreted in the light of what is known from physics about the history and possible future of the universe?

To the minds of some educated people, the most bizarre and unsubstantiated aspect of Christian faith is the area known as eschatology. Eschatology refers to the study of the "last things"—death, the end of the world, heaven and hell. More generally, it also refers to the study of the future and how we can

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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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William Lane Craig is a research professor in philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, California. In this article he explores the relevance of apologetics. 

In the winter of 1985 I returned from a sabbatical in Paris to find that the dean of the seminary at which I taught had decided that the program in philosophy of religion was not worth the expenditure and so had decided to eliminate the department. More than that, he was also proposing to

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Michael Murray is the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor in the Humanities at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania, USA. This article is an edited extract from Christianity’s Critics: Answering the New Atheists and Other Objectors, edited by Paul Copan and William Lane Craig. (Broadman & Homan, 2008). Used with permission. See PDF below to download the full article.

File: Belief in God: A Trick of our Brain? (Michael Murray)

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Our 2008 New College lecturer argues for the importance of artists and artistry as witness-bearers to Christ’s redemptive engagement with us as human creatures.

We might reasonably expect artistic imagination to be counted naturally among the greatest of God’s gifts to humankind. While the precise nature of art’s effect upon us remains a subject of complexity and dispute, we hardly need a degree in aesthetics to identify the effect when it

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

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During his New College Lectures visit in 2008, Professor Hart was interviewed by Dr Greg Clarke about his topic (God and the Artist: Human Creativity in Theological Perspective)»

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