In a famous lecture Clifford suggested that it was wrong to belief anything that is not supported by sufficient belief. His chief target in this lecture was religious belief because, as far as he was concerned, such belief is a good example of non-ev...

31 May 2007

A string of causes cannot go backwards for ever- there must have been a first cause and that first cause is God. This, in its most basic form, is what we call the cosmological argument for the existence of God. In this Chapter we examine three forms ...

21 May 2007

Abstract- The translation of Schleiermacher's key phrase 'das schlechthinnige Abh-ngigkeitsgef-hl' is a matter of some contention. It has been suggested that the traditional translation -feeling of absolute dependence- is in fact inaccurate and that ...

Religious Studies 41:81-94

Abstract- This essay examines how Schleiermacher, Barth, and Newman met the challenge of critical scholarship. For each theologian there is a description of their own approach to the theoretical interpretation of Scripture and then an analysis of how...

The Bible in Pastoral Practice