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• Reality check: The Widespread Claims of Pagan Virgin Births

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  reblogged from The Bart Ehrman Blog I have devoted several posts to the issue of Jesus’ virgin birth, as recounted in Matthew and Luke.  As I pointed out, there is no account of Jesus’ virgin birth in the Gospel of… Read More ›

• Freedom of the press – European style

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• What is ‘hadd’ and ‘tazir’?

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 25, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  A fascinating definition of the fixed and discretionary punishments in Islam noting recent fundamentalist applications of hudud. Screen print from Oxford Islamic Studies Online

• Bacon

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• double standards

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• Noam Chomsky on Language Aquisition

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 25, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Is language structure hard-wired into our brain? Before we emerge from the womb do we have the capacity to organise words and grammar? Noam Chomsky thinks so, and Gillian Anderson helps explain this ‘L.A.D.’ – language acquisition device. A History… Read More ›

• Random pics from my library

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 25, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

• wisdom

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• Another idiotic Muslim own goal

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 25, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Pakistanis at anti-Charlie Hebdo protest want another “Hollow Cost”; Should we cry from their anti-Semitism or laugh at their spelling? (Photo: Reuters)

• Interesting observation..

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 24, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  screen print of a comment left on Bart Ehrman’s blog

• Paul & Jesus: did they teach the same religion?

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 24, 2015 • ( 57 )

  Reblogged from “Christianity in Antiquity (CIA): The Bart Ehrman Blog” May 2014, Professor Bart Ehrman writes: I spent several posts explicating Paul’s understanding of his gospel, that by Christ’s death and resurrection a person is put into a restored relationship with God. … Read More ›

• The Study Quran: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 24, 2015 • ( 10 )

  

  Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad recently told me about a (soon to be published) new translation and commentary on the Quran, edited by the celebrated scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr and published by Harper Collins. Here are some screen prints of the… Read More ›

• God: Fact or Fiction?

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 24, 2015 • ( 0 )

  John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, discusses whether God is ‘fact’ or ‘fiction’ with students at UNC.

• It’s time to face up to the problem of sexual abuse in the white community

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 24, 2015 • ( 0 )

  reblogged from the Guardian From Stuart Hall to north Wales, the issue won’t go away. If you think I’m being ridiculous, read to the end of my argument. Every day across Britain, it seems, there’s a new and horrific revelation… Read More ›

• RIP

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 23, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

• Je suis charlatan!

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• #OnThisDay 1615: Metaphysical poet and future Dean of St Paul’s, John Donne, was ordained.

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory… Read More ›

• J.S. Bach – Keyboard Concerto No. 4, II. Larghetto

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 22, 2015 • ( 0 )

• New book: Images, evolution and fraud

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 22, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Book review reblogged from New Scientist Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, evolution, and fraud by Nick Hopwood Published by: University of Chicago Press Price: $45 (Image: Paul D. Stewart/SPL) Some of the most iconic images in biology hold a dark secret. Haeckel’s… Read More ›

• Was oldest gospel really found in a mummy mask?

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 22, 2015 • ( 0 )

  This CNN article reports on a growing scandal in New Testament studies.   reblogged from CNN Joel Baden is professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale University. Candida Moss is professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Notre… Read More ›

• Breaking: Marcus Borg has died. RIP.

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 22, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• What is the longest word in English?

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 21, 2015 • ( 3 )

  fascinating and fun

• BBC: Muslims have the strongest faith of all religious believers

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 21, 2015 • ( 3 )

  reblogged from BBC News A big gender divide exists between men and women in their 40s in belief in God and life after death, a poll suggests. Of the British men surveyed, 54% said they were atheists or agnostics compared… Read More ›

• You think there’s a multiverse? Get real

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

  From today’s New Scientist COSMOLOGY is in crisis. Recent experiments have given us an increasingly precise narrative of the history of our universe, but attempts to interpret the data have led to a picture of a “preposterous universe” that eludes… Read More ›

• A sneak preview of the cover of this week’s Catholic Herald.

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• Middlemarch

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  “We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, “Oh, nothing!” Pride helps; and pride is not a… Read More ›

• I’m currently reading this tasty morsel

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  I haven’t read a book like this for some time – now I crave a theoretical perspective that can demystify and make sense of the economic and political systems of the world. This book, by a professor at Kings College… Read More ›

• A little slice of Heaven

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• ‘Is there any difference between Jesus and Muhammad in terms of violence?’

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  reblogged from Nieuwwij.nl The terrorist attacks in Paris rendered her new book Fields of Blood, Religion and the History of Violence suddenly and tragically very urgent. In over five hundred pages Karen Armstrong, once a nun and the respected author… Read More ›

• Pro-life

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on January 18, 2015 • ( 0 )