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The New Atheists’ Questionable Knowledge of History

John Dickson looks at some simple historical mistakes the New Atheists have made.

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Archaeology and the New Testament

A list of online articles and essays on the discoveries in archaeology and the historical reliability of the New Testament, recommended by Peter S. Williams.

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Genesis, Myth and History

How should we read the first few chapters of Genesis? Myth, history, or something else? Some thoughts on a video by N.T. Wright, the Bishop of Durham and prominent Biblical scholar.

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Conflict for the Conflict Thesis

Stuart examines the history behind the understanding that faith and science are in conflict.

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Augustine of Hippo, 354 – 430

The Bishop of Hippo was one of the greatest church fathers and theologians in the early history of Christianity. Daniel D. Williams has said that if Alfred North Whitehead is right – that Western philosophy has been a series of footnotes to Plato – then Western theology can be said to be a series of footnotes to Augustine.. .

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More than a fideist: Remembering Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)

Today in New Zealand, we remember the end of the first World War and commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces in that period of awful history. Today, however, is also the day that in 1855, Soren Kierkegaard, one of the most influential thinkers of the nineteenth century, died. This overlap is ironic, for it was only after…

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