BTC Lecture 5: A History of the Soul – This one’s about US.

Over the last weeks we have been looking at how reason and tradition intertwine in the unfolding of revelation.

BTC Week 8 – Postponed till Hilary

With apologies – for complicated reasons this week’s talk on the problem of evil in the world will be deferred until Hilary Term.
Thanks to all who have attended the talks thus far. The series continues on Wednesday of Week 1 on the topic of Knowing God and the Problem of Knowledge.

Beyond the Catechism Week 2

Reason and Revelation: Resurrection and a New World 100 BC
The second talk in the series ‘Beyond the Catechism’ begins to look at the Judaism from which Christianity eventually emerged.  In the shared intellectual culture of the Eastern Mediterranean analytical argument and philosophical dogmas awaken new understandings and new readings of ancient texts.   Amidst territorial feuding [...]

BTC Thinking about religion in the 21st Century

A Summary of Talk 1
This talk suggests that for many people there is an intellectual conflict between their Catholic faith tradition, its language and practices and the way they think about the world as men and women brought up in 21st Century British culture.
One extreme is deny the validity of the intellectual developments of the [...]