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Jesus:the Hidden Years

Jesus erupts into history for a few brief years, and had maximum impact before the strange events of the end of his life.

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Understanding Christian Ethics

Christian ethics can only be understood when you realize that it is essentially a God-focused way of living.

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Did Jesus Exist?

No one in the ancient world denied that Jesus of Nazareth existed, not even his enemies.

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Ministry in the church:women bishops

The long awaited decision to have women bishops is major progress.

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Sacred Gardens

Humans have an intuition that there can be something sacred about a garden and they have reflected this insight in religious gardens.

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Why God Man: Reflections on the Incarnation

The Christian belief that God became man in Jesus Christ has prompted much theological reflection.

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Meet the Herods

The Herod dynasty were efficient rulers, but their grip on power was based upon ruthlessness.

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Christ and the Mythical Consciousness

Some important mythological themes seem to coalesce in the Jesus narrative

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God does not have a magic wand: Reflections on Pope Francis' Address

Pope Francis is raising important points about divine action in the world

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Pelagius: a sadly traduced theologian

Pelagius was a religious thinker who clashed with Augustine and had his history written by his enemies, quite unfairly it seems.

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The Jesus' Wife Papyrus

An ancient papyrus recently analysed claims to have Jesus mentioning his wife

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Pilate

Pontius Pilate is a controversial character in the Christian story, but he was a man facing up to a strange and charismatic prisoner who challenged his certainties.

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A Line of Scandalous Women

Preachers might emphasise Jesus' descent from David, but he had certain women among his ancestry whose reputation was not for good moral behaviour.

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Did St Paul invent Christianity?

St Paul was one of the earliest theologians, but he did not invent the movement that he joined or its basic beliefs.

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Understanding Biblical Literature

The Bible is an anthology of books of different literary types that each require their own intepretation techniques

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Who Wrote the Gospels

We cannot know with certainty who wrote the four canonical gospels, but there are claims about their authorship which can be historically assessed

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The afterlife: what Jesus taught and what developed later

Jesus said something about the afterlife, but much Christian teaching is the product of theological reflection after Jesus' death.

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The Infancy Narratives: the story behind Christmas

There are two different infancy narratives in the gospels. How historically true theyr are is a matter of question, but they have a message.

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