I am loved, therefore I am! (N.T. Wright)


I am loved, therefore I am!
N.T. Wright on Descartes, love, and personal identity at The Veritas Forum at the University of Cincinnati.
Length: 3:39min

Nicholas Thomas Wright (born 1 December 1948) is a leading British New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian, and retired Anglican bishop. In academia, he is published as N. T. Wright, but is otherwise known as Tom Wright. Between 2003 and his retirement in 2010, he was the Bishop of Durham. He then became Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary’s College in the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

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maladies and malevolence

Every human being suffers from maladies unthinkable. Every human being causes suffereing through malevolence unbearable.

This ill truth suffices enough to trust in the Torah, and even further, it is embraced by the teachings and actions of Jesus who overcame both.

— T

Malady: an unwholesome or disordered condition
Malevolent: having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred

Socrates in the City | John Lennox: The Question of Science and God – Part 2


Length: 58 minutes
Has Science buried God? Eric Metaxas tracks down Oxford’s John Lennox in France for answers, and the brilliant professor delivers!

Part 1 | Part 2

John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is a Northern Irish mathematician specialising in group theory, philosopher of science and Christian apologist. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics[2] at the University of Oxford and a Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford University. He is also Pastoral Advisor of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School.

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Socrates meets Jesus – Play based on the book by Peter Kreeft


Length: 1h08min
A performance of the play SOCRATES MEETS JESUS by Kevin O’Brien, based on the book by Peter Kreeft, at the American Chesterton Society Conference in Worcester, MA on August 2, 2013

Peter John Kreeft (/kreɪft/ born 16 March 1937 in Paterson, New Jersey) is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King’s College. He is the author of numerous books as well as a popular writer of Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics. He also formulated, together with Ronald K. Tacelli, SJ, “Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God.”

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Prof. Dr. Friedrich Schweitzer | Hat ein Kind das Recht auf Religion?


Length: 1h06min
Die allermeisten Eltern wollen das Beste für ihr Kind. Es soll glücklich sein, spielen, toben, lachen – und lernen natürlich, Mathe, Englisch, Kunst, Koreanisch, Astronomie. Aber bloß nicht: Diese Sache mit Gott. Da halten sich moderne Eltern lieber zurück. Religiöse Erziehung ist in den meisten westlichen Ländern umstritten. Weil immer weniger Menschen einer Religionsgemeinschaft angehören. Weil immer weniger Menschen es selbstverständlich finden, dass Kinder religiös erzogen werden. Weil sich immer weniger Menschen einig darüber sind, in welcher Religion ihr Kind überhaupt erzogen werden soll. Und überhaupt: Sind Kinder nicht eigentlich glücklicher ohne religiöse Erziehung?
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Socrates in the City | John Lennox: The Question of Science and God – Part 1


Length: 51 minutes
Has Science buried God? Eric Metaxas tracks down Oxford’s John Lennox in France for answers, and the brilliant professor delivers! This is part 1 of two parts.

Part 1 | Part 2

John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is a Northern Irish mathematician specialising in group theory, philosopher of science and Christian apologist. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics[2] at the University of Oxford and a Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford University. He is also Pastoral Advisor of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School.

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