What are we? The answer we give to this question either grounds our nobility as humans or points to what Darwin called our ‘lowly origin’. In this first session of Christian Heritage's 'Humanity Matters' webinar series, Andrew Fellows examines various contemporary accounts of what it means to be human and contrasts them with one that truly ennobles us. ...
In this webinar, Dr Chris Watkin and Kevin Moss discuss what we can learn from Albert Camus’ seminal work, The Plague, and especially how these lessons coalesce with a Christian worldview. ...
Christians do not have a monopoly on seeing what's wrong with the world. This talk examines three secular sin labels as a diagnosis of the problem. Each adds something significant to our understanding of why everything is so bent out of shape. While these labels are useful, they are inadequate when compared to the better diagnosis found in the Bible. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/17154512/andrew-fellows-is-sin-plausible-in-the-modern-world.mp3[/embed]...
In this Round Church Talk, Andrew Fellows explores what Other-centred love looks like and how the 'inferno of self-love' works in opposition to this. Christ alone is the reference point for understanding the greatness of the highest love. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12165731/andrew-fellows-eating-people-is-wrong-a-description-of-other-centred-love-as-the-better-valentine.mp3[/embed]...
Arthur Keefer examines how the Christian Bible views the problems and concepts posed in Dr Taylor's A Secular Age. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12164754/arthur-keefer-a-biblical-vision-for-charles-taylors-a-secular-age.mp3[/embed]...
James Orr examines the trade-off between explanatory power and theoretical elegance in a theistic philosophical framework. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12163902/james-orr-platos-beard-and-occams-razor-some-new-arguments-for-theism.mp3[/embed]...
Bertrand Russell comments that 'evidence is not enough' for the existence of God. This talk argues that the 'hiddenness' of God is not something to be apologetically defended. In terms of who God is, He must hide in order to be true to Himself. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12164424/andrew-fellows-not-enough-evidence-why-god-hides.mp3[/embed]...
The 'Anxiety of Modernity' isn't a far-off, abstract concept. Rather, it is something that each of us deals with on a daily basis. Andrew Fellows addresses the topic of Modernity and discusses what the Bible says about how we should approach life in the modern age. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12163040/andrew-fellows-living-in-the-machine-the-anxiety-of-modernity.mp3[/embed]...
Andrew Fellows, former director of L'Abri International and director of Christian Heritage, discusses temporality, eternity and rest in this Round Church Talk as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12163512/andrew-fellows-building-cathedrals-within-time-temporality-eternity-and-rest.mp3[/embed]...
Philosopher Greg Jesson (Luther College, USA) argues that love teaches us more about objective reality than just about anything else. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12163302/greg-jesson-the-problem-of-love.mp3[/embed]...