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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With many societies confused about whether Christmas is, or should be, a Christian celebration, here are some suggested reasons why it really does matter what you think of Jesus at this time of year.

He’s too famous to ignore

As a celebrity, there isn’t anyone who comes close to Jesus. He is the ultimate rags to riches story. He was born in poverty to an unmarried mother, raised in a trade (carpentry, they say), but he struck everyone around him

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Topping the nonfiction lists at present is Oxford Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion. Dawkins is up front about the purpose of his book: "If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down". The marketing team should have considered a warning label!

More than anything, The God Delusion is concerned with the psychological damage that religious belief

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Does the Bible ban interest? …and so what if it does?

On August 15, 2006, Dr Michael Schluter (former World Bank consultant and founder of Britain’s Relationship Foundation) presented a CASE lecture in which he explored the Bible’s teaching on interest and the relationship between economics and Christianity.

How should we approach understanding what the Bible says about interest? Firstly, it is important to keep in mind taht Christianity is a

There are many ways of putting together the fields of theology and psychology, not all of them equally fruitful.

What is the relationship between Christianity and secular psychology? Are they two totally incommensurable approaches to human beings? Are they simply answering different questions? Can they profitably interact?

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Does Presuppositionalism offer a true biblical epistemology, or is it philosophically flawed and inconsistent with Scripture itself? Dani Scarratt offers a critique of Van Til and Frame.

Presuppositionalism, broadly speaking, is a way of thinking about epistemology from aChristian perspective, which has implications for apologetic method. It’s inception is generally attributed to Reformed theologian Cornelius Van Til, and is quite popular in

Ben Myers from the Uni of Queensland runs a heady blog called Faith and Theology, which begins with a cute (and instructive) theological history of blogging. Very worthy of return visits! http://faith-theology.blogspot.com/

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What was the character of religion in the Victorian era?

The controversies surrounding Victorian religion involve technical issues of Biblical criticism, scientific discoveries and ecclesiastical tradition. All of these subjects, I propose, arise out of the central dilemma of essential, or spiritual, authority. This essay examines the forms of religious doubt that were experienced by Victorians and argues that the focal point for these concerns was

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Anglican Bishop of Durham, NT Wright, is one of the most influential figures in Christian thinking today. His series of books on the Origins of Christianity have already played a major role in reshaping and re-invigorating theology in the areas of Christology, ecclesiology, eschatology and many other –ologies, too. On the 22nd March 2006 Bishop Wright gave a CASE public entitled ‘Resurrection and Beyond’ that was based on his 800 page book The

Are adults are too old to change their ways and embrace Christ as Lord?

Conversion to Christianity has long fascinated me. What is it that causes such a profound change in a person’s thinking and way of life that we say they have been ‘converted’ from one kind of person into another? The Gospel language for such a change is ‘born again’, a term now so politicised as to obscure its powerful evocation of a fresh start.

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