Arianism.
I'm summarising what I've learned recently about Arianism: the heresy par excellence, named for the early-fourth-century Alexandrian priest, Arius. I'll conclude with some reflections on why we still need to reject Arian temptations and affirm Nicene orthodoxy today.
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381: how the church as we know it was made.
The church which defines our world now is in a significant way the one which emerged out of sixty years of controversy from the Council of Constantinople in 381. I've been charting what happened, why, and the ongoing legacy.
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Changing my ambitions.
When I started my first degree, I had unrealistic and unhelpful ambitions. For my second degree, I'm setting my sights on different targets.
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Surprised By Hope.
I've been working on my resurrection doctrine. Here's where I've got to.
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A paradox about 'should'.
I seem to have accidentally proven that drinking wine both is and is not a thing you should do. Let's hope that wine doesn't disappear in a puff of logical smoke.
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Questions I have about sex.
Mark Vernon got me thinking about how the Church’s teaching on sex may be evolving.
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What do academics think LLM ‘hallucination’ means?.
What does the word ‘hallucination’ actually mean in reference to LLMs when used by academics? And where does that word come from? I’ve trawled the academic literature for answers.
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Doctor Who, Gayness, and the Church.
Series 14 of Doctor Who has a schizophrenic relationship with Christianity. It’s also gay. I think there might be a connection.
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God Is Not Great, initial thoughts.
My spark notes on Hitchen's classic 2007 polemic against religion, plus some initial thoughts on how I want to respond to it.
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Harari’s Sapiens on Religion.
In which I discuss why I think Harari’s characterisation of religion is inadequate because it’s too materialistic.
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