Blaise Pascal wrote that 'man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed'. So, how is it that we know and how do we know that we know? This webinar examines how humans apprehend the world, and the light this sheds on who we are. ...
The sheer range of human capacities is astonishing, even awe-inspiring. How do we account for them all? Today, we are used to explaining human talents reductively, boiling them down quickly to something more basic. This session beats a path towards an understanding of our humanity which elevates us, even as it grounds us in created reality. ...
Consciousness is an undeniable fact and yet a profound mystery, too. What does it mean to be conscious? And what might consciousness lead us to say about our humanity? In this webinar, we will take a closer look at our interior life and consider the wonders to which it points. ...
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. ...
Isaac Watts lived through a time of collision between traditional Christian faith and the forces of 'Enlightenment'. How he engaged with, critiqued and adapted to the veneration of reason is fascinating and still instructive. Dr Graham Beynon, Watts scholar and pastor, profiles this fascinating man, his thought and his times. ...
In this webinar, and in the wake of the UK government's imposition of radical abortion on Northern Ireland, we talk to Philippa Taylor (CARE) and Dawn McAvoy (Both Lives Matter) about what a Christian response to the culture of abortion looks like. ...
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. ...