Douglas Knight

As far as the two great themes of “reason” and “freedom” are concerned, here we can only touch upon the issues connected with them. Yes indeed, reason is God’s great gift to man, and the victory of reason over unreason is also a goal of the Christian life. But when does reason truly triumph? When [...]

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Damian Thompson believes English Catholic bishops are resisting Benedict’s recent measure to allow the mass to be celebrated in Latin here in England. Here he is on ‘the shabby attempts by various English bishops to block the Pope’s liturgical reforms‘
He urges us to complain about the English bishops’ ‘disastrous attempts to block the reform‘
You do [...]

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The Coming Spiritual Tsunami
Three Advent Lectures by The Bishop of London at St Stephen Walbrook
On Dover Beach
Tuesday 4 December at 1pm
The Hurricane Gathers Strength
Tuesday 11 December at 1pm
In Swept House
Tuesday 18 December at 1pm

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Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life exists to promote a better understanding of the role of religion in public life and to facilitate dialogue between religious groups of any faith and among such groups and public institutions
Its board is small but distinguished
* The Rt. Rev. Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali, [...]

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Teaching Christian doctrine can start from a number of places. Indeed, it must start from several places and then show the relationships between them. It can start from:
(1) the evangelical narrative – the bible
(2) the set of doctrines developed from that narrative
(3) the history of the development of doctrine
(4) the worship of the Church [...]

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Slippage can occur between thinking compassionately about exceptional cases and losing the sense of a normative position.
This is not an argument for unalterable prohibitions in law against abortion in every circumstance – or against divorce or civil partnerships; there is room for disagreement over appropriate legal provision in all these areas. But it is [...]

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