Irretrievable breakdown? Disestablishment and the Church of England

Julian Rivers, December 1994   1 comment

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Before addressing specific issues within the establishment debate, this paper seeks to identify the Christian understanding of the church and the state and discusses various models for their interrelationship.

Keywords: Christianity & Religion

The rise and fall of nations: how far can Christians interpret history?

Michael Schluter, September 1994   No comments

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In Reflections on providence: can we 'read'events? - Vol.2 No.2, Mark Dever raised the question of whether it is possible to move beyond seeking God's hand in our personal circumstances to 'reading history' in the rise and fall of nations. This paper addresses that question.

Keywords: Worldviews & Culture

Homosexuality: finding the way of truth and love

Christopher Townsend, June 1994   No comments

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This paper reviews the key biblical material on homosexual practice and considers scientific and theological explanations of the origins of homophile attraction. An indication is given of the multi-faceted response of the gospel to the needs of the homosexual person and the importance of acceptance and friendship.

Keywords: Sex & Families

Deconstruction: gagging the speaking God?

Michael Ovey, December 1993   1 comment

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This paper aims to describe how deconstructionism (arising from new literary theories) works, the way it abolishes the idea of a speaking God, and to examine some ideas for rejecting it.

Scholars have been thrilled recently at discovering a hitherto unpublished fragment of Lewis Carroll's work about Alice . It goes like this:

'When I use a word,' said Humpty Dumpty scornfully, 'it means what I want it to mean, neither more nor less.'

Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Worldviews & Culture

Reflections on providence: can we 'read' events?

Mark E Dever, June 1993   No comments

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This paper considers the obvious moral problems raised by Christian claims to meaning, and suggests some biblical guidelines which may help us to 'read' events.

Keywords: Christianity & Religion

The ban on interest: dead letter or radical solution?

Paul Mills, March 1993   No comments

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Financial disasters are currently everyday occurences. Many are attributable to the workings of a debt- and interest-based economy. This paper attempt to demonstrate the injustices and problems that have arisen because we have ignored traditional Christian teaching on finance.

Keywords: Finance & the Economy

Blasphemy law in the secular state

A J Rivers, December 1992   1 comment

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The English blasphemy law is often criticised for being anachronistis. This paper argues for a two-tier approach. This would involve the creation of a new offence of incitement to religious hatred, which would encompass all faiths, while retaining a distinct and specifically Christian blasphemy law.

Keywords: Christianity & Religion

Equality but not symmetry

Michael Ovey, June 1992   3 comments

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This paper looks at a presupposition sometimes held in the debate over women's ordination, that God could not by His nature restrict certain roles in churches to men. In the light of the relationship between God the Father and God the Son, it will argue that this presupposition is mistaken.

Keywords: Sex & Families