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When Michel de Montaigne asked his famous question, “What do I know? (Qui sçay-je?)” in the longest of his essays, “An Apology for Raymond Sebond,” what he was asking was whether he could know God’s will with certainty, especially as it applied to the argument made by some Protestant and Catholic polemicists and even some […]
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This new book, Providence, Evil and Salvation – a Thomist Perspective attempts to address some questions central to the Christian faith: How can we square the belief in God with the existence of evil? What is ‘sin’? What, if anything, could the claim that God ‘saves’ the world in Christ possibly mean? How do we […]
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One of the enduring assumptions in the study of religion is that belief in the devil emerged as an attempt to explain the existence of evil. Before modern psychology, sociology, or philosophy offered alternative accounts of suffering and human behaviour, so the story goes, Jews and Christians appealed to Satan to explain why bad things […]
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Why is it that when some people seek God they come up short? J. L. Schellenberg, following a path blazed by Friedrich Nietzsche, argues that God is hidden for the simple reason that God does not exist. For if God really were all loving and all powerful, he would take pains to be known by […]
Read MoreDebates about the effectiveness of social interventions often begin with a deceptively simple question: ‘does it work?’ Yet this question obscures the deeper epistemic challenges at stake. Social policies and practices operate within richly detailed dynamic systems in which causal processes are rarely uniform or independent of context. As a result, establishing whether an intervention […]
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A few years ago, I started to question the role and status of the human being in the natural realm. Although we know very well that we are animals, we feel that we occupy a special place in nature—at least, so it is in the Western culture. We are part of nature, even though the […]
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In a moment, I’m going to tell you about my book. But before I do that, I’d like to ask you to perform a quick intellectual exercise: think of something that, in your view, is really terrible. It could be a movie, or a song, or a political outlook, or even a person-as long as […]
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Many years ago I developed an amateur interest in British ecclesiastical history, brought about particularly by reading on holiday Diarmaid MacCulloch’s astonishing biography of Thomas Cranmer (1996); and I thought it would be fascinating to link this interest with my professional work in English historical linguistics and philology, thus contributing to what David Crystal and […]
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