How well does the New Testament stand up to historical scrutiny? This new edition of a classic book contains fresh material comparing the Koran and the New Testament, exploring the nature of history writing, and more on the resurrection.

For people who doubt whether the message of Christianity in the Bible is a true record of history, or want to know how strong are the historical foundations of the faith, this is the book to get you started. In the

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This is a lucid and learned overview from one of Australia’s eminent academics in the area of philosophy of religion. Max Charlesworth was professor of philosophy at Deakin University and has written extensively on bioethical issues and on Australian Aboriginal religions. In this book, a rewrite of his 1972 volume, Charlesworth provides a ‘grid’ of the various relations between reason and religion since the ancient Greeks.

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Download a summary of the paper given by Richard Swinburne on the probability that God raised Jesus from the dead.

Notes to accompany lecture

A historical hypothesis H is probable in so far as it is intrinsically a simple hypothesis and,

(1) the general background evidence K makes it probable that H will hold under certain conditions (the prior requirements) and not otherwise,

(2) the historical evidence E1 (the prior historical evidence) is

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Edward Said invents some goals.

His book reexamines and reformulates humanism in 21st Century academic and political spheres. Damage was done to the study of humanism by structuralists and poststructuralists, especially the works of French theorists like Foucault and Barthes, who, continuing from Nietzsche, Freud and Marx, brought about the depersonalisation of the individual artist and author. Furthermore, over the past few decades, the humanities

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Is genetic intervention likely to change our concepts of human nature? Professor of Anatomy, D. Gareth Jones explores the hype and the hope behind new forms of therapy, and ponders a Christian approach based on humility before the Creator.

Genetics and humility—a contradiction in terms? The world of genetics can be intensely misleading, since it lends itself to oversimplification. Images of ‘designer babies’, the rampant cloning of famous and

Historian Paul Barnett explores the evidence for the existence of Jesus compared with other famous figures of the ancient world.

(See the PDF for complete article.)

Files: Mystery of origins

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After a cameo appearance in The Passion of the Christ, the Shroud of Turin is back on the agenda in ancient world scholarship. Philosopher Peter Williams explains why it might add evidence for the resurrection of Jesus (420k PDF).

It is true to say that, “Now ... some scientists accept the Shroud’s authenticity more readily than medieval Christians did”. This is because, as Stevenson, who served as official spokesperson fort the Shroud of Turin

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Philosophy Professor Bruce Langtry explores whether it makes sense to talk about human beings and God as both ‘personal’ in the same way—at least in some senses.

In this paper I approach the nature of God from a purely theoretical direction. Mydiscipline is philosophy rather than theology, and I will not be concerned with thespiritual and practical implications of our thinking about God. These matters are ofcourse important, but I believe that it

Is there a Christian worldview? Greg Clarke’s editorial from a recent Case magazine.

Is there such a thing as a Christian worldview? Does the gospel of Christ so profoundly shape a person’s thinking that he develops something so intellectually coherent that it can fairly be called a philosophy, or a metaphysical system? Or is this a misunderstanding of what it means to call Christ your ‘lord and saviour’? non-religious conception of life. They

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Winged sandals—a very stylish Flash-based introduction to Greek mythology, courtesy of the University of Melbourne Centre for Classics and Archaeology and ABC online.

http://www.abc.net.au/arts/wingedsandals/

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