May 22 2008
Gregory W. Dawes
University of Otago
Dunedin Sea of Faith Group
22 May 2008
1. Two Questions about Religion
There are two questions one can ask about belief in God. The first is: Are there good reasons to believe in God? This is a question with which every philosopher is familiar and which I deal with every year, when I discuss the arguments for and against the existence of God. But there is a second question one can ask, Continue Reading »
Mar 27 2008
Talk by Ian Fleming at the meeting of the Dunedin Sea of Faith Group on 27 March 2008, on the subject of Karen Armstrong’s take on the Golden Rule.
Feb 28 2008
[A talk to the Dunedin Sea of Faith Group by Donald Feist, February 2008]
To be more precise,
I should say that authority has always been Continue Reading »
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Mar 22 2007
Karen Armstrong’s reordering of the Old Testament in the light of recent archaeology.
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Talk to Dunedin SOF Thursday 22 March, 2007. – (Ian Fleming)
Old Testament Israel is one of the four cultures Karen Armstrong treats in her book: The Great Transformation. She uses recent archaeological discoveries to show that Israel’s actual historical journey takes a path very different from the one portrayed in the Bible. Continue Reading »
Jun 23 2004
The many gospels of Jesus ruthlessly excluded from the NT canon and their developing effect upon the belief of Christians today.
(Talk in June, 2004 to Dunedin Sea of Faith group by Ian Fleming)
Till quite recently many believed that all we knew about Jesus was Continue Reading »