It was this Bible that became known as the Great Bible. It included both the canonical and apocryphal books, mistakenly referring to the latter as the Hagiographa. The New Testament works were printed...
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.8
Faith reaches out to where reason points and does not limit itself to where reason stops.
Doubt is a subject which many Christians find both difficult an sensitive. They may see it as something shameful and disloyal, on the same level as heresy. As a result, it is something that they don't...
Curiously, Dawkins and Dennett remain firmly committed to the outmoded notion that science and religion are permanently in conflict—an idea often referred to as the warfare thesis. This is now regarde...
Cultural assimilation is all too often the prelude to ecclesial extinction.
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall {i} cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. When tyrants cannot prevail by deceit, they burst into open...
A careful study of the court records of the northern English city of Durham suggests that you had replaced thou as the normal form of address in spoken English by about 1575.
Village. The scholar, Lewis declares, has lived in many times and can thus challenge the automatic presumption of finality inherent in present judgements and trends: We need intimate knowledge of the...
Then reviewed by the Bishops, presented to the Privy Council, lastly ratified by Royal authority. Yet there is actually no documentary evidence that the 1611 Bible ever received final written authoriz...
Yet Lewis quickly realised that he was being forced to develop his critical thinking, based on evidence and reason rather than his personal intuitions.
The evidence strongly suggests that the first English Bible to be brought to the New World was the Geneva Bible. Not only had this been available longer, it was the translation of choice for the Purit...
The essential feature of a heresy is that it is not unbelief (rejection of the core beliefs of a worldview such as Christianity) in the strict sense of the term, but a form of that faith that is held...
The New Testament develops two interrelated themes. First, the Christian faith shows us the way things really are. This is about revelation, coming to see things properly. But revelation alone doesn’t...
Sehnsucht? The German word is rich with emotional and imaginative associations, famously described by the poet Matthew Arnold as a wistful, soft, tearful longing. And what of the Blue Flower? Leading...
Not everyone could read Latin; in any case, as Erasmus would make clear, there were some big problems with the accuracy of the Vulgate translation. In 1516, Erasmus declared that this traditional Lati...
Noah Webster, responsible for an influential dictionary that helped establish the distinctive aspects of American spelling. Webster was alarmed by a series of biblical passages that he regarded as off...
Mere Christianity allows us to understand Christian ideas; the Narnia stories allow us to step inside and experience the Christian story and judge it by its ability to make sense of things and chime i...
In the end, Christianity stands or falls with the trustworthiness and reliability of the God who raised Jesus Christ from the dead. By meditating on that first Good Friday, we can remind ourselves of...
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.[