What has Nietzsche to do with Christmas? And what has either to do with rock bands, HIV and clean water? In a word: hope. Having just described generosity as one of the highest virtues of the church, one of the surest signs that a community is following Jesus, we turn now to the content of...
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Church Hist. (Modern), Part 5: Darwin, Fundamentalism and the Challenge of New Ideas
As we conclude this series in modern church history, we examine the intellectual challenges that confronted the church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Perhaps the most obvious of these was the rapid progress of scientific discovery – things like James Hutton’s work in geology (radically redefining the age of the universe) and...