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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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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Medical Ethics: Christian Perspectives on Life and Death – MP3 audio files available for CASE Associates

On the 21st March 2009 CASE ran a conference focusing on significant issues in the ethically-charged field of medicine. The conference programme ran as follows:

• Dr Andrew Cole: Why Should Christians be Interested in Ethics in Medicine?

• Dr Megan Best: Ethical Issues at the Beginning of Life

• Dr Patrina Caldwell: Medical Research Involving

Medical Ethics: Christian Perspectives on Life and Death

On the 21st March 2009 CASE ran a conference focusing on significant issues in the ethically-charged field of medicine. The conference programme ran as follows:

• Dr Andrew Cole: Why Should Christians be Interested in Ethics in Medicine?

• Dr Megan Best: Ethical Issues at the Beginning of Life

• Dr Patrina Caldwell: Medical Research Involving Children

• Dr John Dearin: End of Life Issues -

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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 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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