Saturday 9 July at 7pm – Dave Taylor will look at the ways in which the centrality of economic and market-based reasoning has taught us an approach to thinking that is incompatible with the pursuit of God and has led to the creation of a culture where even the religious are irreligious.
Rethinking Ethics and God
“You can’t have objective morality without God” is not hard to find in Christian popular writing. But is this statement true? What does it even mean?
Can we believe in politics?
Rev Dr Michael Jensen & Professor Vrasidas Karalis discuss whether it is reasonable to believe in politics as a means of pursuing a more just world; facilitated by Julia Baird, a well-known presenter and commentator on matters of faith in the public sphere.
Wisdom’s Children
‘Wisdom’s Children’: Biblical Proverbs and Western Culture For our November PEACEtalk Dr Ben Myers shared with us some of the work he has been doing on an upcoming book called Wisdom’s Children: Biblical Proverbs and Western Culture. This work explores the ways in which the genre of biblical proverbs has been assimilated and subversively imitated by different […]
Who is my neighbour?
In the Gospel of Luke, Christ is famously asked the question ‘who is my neighbour?’ His response took the form of a parable that would become one of the framing stories of all Western moral and political thought; ‘The Good Samaritan’. However, through centuries of familiarity it is now possible for us to read this […]