A Sermon preached at the Inauguration of the General Synod of the Church of England at Westminster Abbey, London, on Tuesday 14 November 2000, by Revd Professor Alister McGrath, Professor of Historical Theology, Oxford University; Principal, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.
“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he [...]
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Sermon: Church of England
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The Incoming Sea of Faith
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Alister McGrath says that atheism has been discredited by the collapse of communism and the postmodern need for tolerance
When I was an atheist back in the 1960s, its future seemed assured. I grew up in Northern Ireland, where religious tensions and violence had alienated many from Christianity. Like so many disaffected young people then, [...]
Reflections on Christian Apologetics
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To Capture the Imagination of Our Culture: Reflections on Christian Apologetics
Alister E. McGrath
We live in an era when apologetics has ceased to be peripheral to the task of the church. The Church of England has, perhaps unsurprisingly to those of us who know her ways, not quite fully woken up to this fact. Apologetics [...]
Justice and the Transcendent
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Justice and the Transcendent: On the relation of religion and law
The Warburton Lecture
delivered at Lincoln’s Inn on Sunday 18 June 2006
by
Alister E. McGrath
Professor of Historical Theology, Oxford University
It is a great pleasure to be able to speak to you this morning on the theme of “religion and law”. [...]
Has Science Eliminated God?
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by Alister McGrath
Introduction
It is a great pleasure to be able to speak to you this evening on the fascinating topic of the way in which the atheism of Richard Dawkins is grounded in his understanding of the natural sciences. I first came across Richard Dawkins’ work back in 1977, when I read his first [...]
