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Issue 28: April 2007

Karl Marx and Christianity: Connections and Contradictions
Dr. Andrew Wright (King’s College, London)

The Status of the Human Embryo and Foetus in Law and Ethics
Dr. Susanne Gibson (St. Martin’s College, Lancaster)

Who’s Afraid of Relativism?
Dr. Julian Baggini (The Philosophers’ Magazine)

Jesus, the Big Bang and Seven Days:
The Contemporary Relevance of the Doctrine of Creation
The Revd. Dr. David Wilkinson (St. John’s College, Durham)

The Ethics of Killing
Professor Torbjörn Tännsjö (University of Stockholm)

Genetics and Our Future
Dr. David Smith (The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)

Virtue-Centred Ethical Theory
Professor Jonathan Jacobs (Colgate University, New York)

Just War Theory and the Invasion of Iraq
Dr. Mark Evans (University of Wales Swansea)

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Issue 27: November 2006

The Beer-Truck Hypothesis and Groundhog Day:
What Time Can Tell Us about The Meaning of Life
Professor Kimberly A. Blessing (Buffalo State College, New York)

Watch Your Language
Michael Poole (King’s College, London)

The Art of the AS and A2 Examination Essay
Michael Wilcockson (Principal A-level Examiner)

St. John’s Gospel: What is it all about, and why is it different?
The Revd Dr David Wenham (Wycliffe Hall, Oxford)

Excitement in AS/A2 Religious Studies Teaching
Professor Terence Copley (University of Exeter)

Religious Experience
Professor Paul Badham (University of Wales, Lampeter)

Karen Ann Quinlan, Tony Bland, and Terri Schiavo:
Withdrawing Life Support from Patients in a Persistent Vegetative State
Professor Nancy J. Duff (Princeton Theological Seminary)

Plato’s Theory of Forms
Dr Raphael Woolf (King’s College, London)

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Issue 26: April 2006

Animal Theology – or theology as if animals really mattered
The Revd. Professor Andrew Linzey (University of Oxford)

Supporting a good cause: Cosmological arguments for the existence of God
Gerald Jones (The Mary Ward Centre, London)

Virtue Ethics and Character Consequentialism
Professor Nicholas F. Gier (University of Idaho, USA)

The Problem of Evil
The Revd. Canon Professor Keith Ward (University of Oxford)

Meta-Ethics and Emotivism
John Rafferty (Langside College, Glasgow)

The Virtues of Reason and Faith: Friendship and Broad Perspectives
Professor Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA)

Jesus in his Social Setting
The Revd. Canon Professor John Riches (formerly University of Glasgow)

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Issue 25: November 2005

Justifications of Punishment
Dr. Paul Smith, Senior Lecturer in Ethics, St. Martin’s College, Lancaster.

Christian Marriage in the Modern World
Professor Adrian Thatcher, Teaching Fellow, Department of Theology, University of Exeter; formerly Professor of Applied Theology at the College of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth.

Has Science killed God? Richard Dawkins on Science and Religion
The Revd. Professor Alister McGrath, Professor of Historical Theology, University of Oxford.

Durkheim and Weber on Religion
The Revd. Duncan Dormor, Dean, Fellow and Tutor, St. John’s College, Cambridge.

Why do we help others?
Dr. Steve Else, Teacher of Religion and Philosophy, Loughborough Grammar School.

The Da Vinci Code and the Sacred Feminine
Julie Arliss, Lecturer in Theology and Philosophy, Richard Huish College, Taunton.

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Issue 24: November 2005

The Moral Status of Animals: Some Philosophical Reflections
Dr. Christopher Hamilton (King’s College, London)

The Truth of the ‘Untruths’ of John’s Gospel
Stephen Morris (Brentwood School, Essex)

Darwinism and Christian Belief
Professor John Hedley Brooke
(University of Oxford)

A Humanist Critique of Religion
Marilyn Mason
(British Humanist Association)

Could the Universe be Infinitely Old?:
Thomas Aquinas’ First Way of Proving the Existence of God
Dr. Sharon Kaye and TaLeiza Calloway
(John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA)

God, Evil and the Big Wave
Peter Manning
(King Henry VIII School, Coventry)

Religion Without ‘Superstition’: A Realist View?
Dr. Elizabeth Burns
(Heythrop College, University of London)

Business Ethics: Some Central Issues
Professor Thomas L. Carson
(Loyola University of Chicago, USA)

Three Kinds of Ethics and the Teaching of Jesus:
Teaching and Learning Ideas for A level Religious Studies
Lat Blaylock
(Professional Council for Religious Education)

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Issue 23: November 2004

Virtue on Wall Street?
Mark Coffey
(Teacher of Religion and Philosophy, The Manchester Grammar School)

A Dialogue with Professor Peter Singer (DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the Centre for Human Values, Princeton University)

Redaction Criticism
The Reverend Dr. Anthony Bash
(Lecturer in Theology, University of Hull)

Who’s to Judge? Ethical Relativism versus Ethical Objectivism
Professor Louis P. Pojman
(Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge; until recently Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy)

Sex and Marriage in the Christian Tradition
The Reverend Duncan J. Dormor
(Dean of St. John’s College, Cambridge)

The Challenge of Durkheim’s Sociological Interpretation of Religion
Bob Bowie (Lecturer in Religious Education, Canterbury Christ Church University College)

Euthanasia: Conflicting Positions
Dr. David Smith
(Ethics Consultant, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)

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Issue 20: April 2003

Four Portraits of Jesus
The Revd. Dr. Richard A. Burridge,
Dean of King’s College, London.

What does it mean to be human? Thoughts on Philosophy of Human Nature
Professor Nina Rosenstand,
Associate Professor of Philosophy, San Diego Mesa College.

Some guidelines for candidates answering questions on the Ontological Argument
Dr. John Frye, Deputy Director, Hellesdon / Taverham Sixth Form Centre, Norwich; A-level Principal Examiner.

Competition: Some Ethical and Theological Considerations
Professor John M. Hull,
Emeritus Professor of Religious Education, University of Birmingham.

Teleology, Morality, and Human Flourishing
Professor Arthur F. Holmes,
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.

Connecting Morality and Religion
Professor Jeff Astley,
Director of the North of England Institute for Christian Education.

Is Religion Bad for the Environment?
Professor R.J. Berry,
Professor Emeritus of Genetics, University College, London.

Wittgenstein: Twentieth Century Genius
Professor Robert L. Arrington,
Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University.

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Issue 19: November 2002

Why be Moral?
Dr. Christopher Falzon,
Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Newcastle, Australia.

Abortion
Professor Brenda Almond,
Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy, University of Hull.

Just War – War against Iraq?
Dr. Peter Vardy,
Vice-Principal, Heythrop College, University of London.

Ideas about Conscience
Bob Bowie,
Head of Religious Education, St. John Fisher Catholic College, Chatham.

Religion without God
Professor Ray Billington,
Former Head of Philosophy, University of the West of England.

Wilderness, Religion, and Human Dwelling
Dr. Michael Northcott,
Reader in Christian Ethics, University of Edinburgh.

Is Science Enough?
Martin Rogers,
Co-Director of the Science and Religion in Schools Project. Previously Director of the Farmington Institute for Christian Studies, Oxford.

Doing Without Free Will
Professor James Rachels
University Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.