download PDF Jesus the Exorcist by Peter S. Williams “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God!” – Unnamed demon, (Mark 1:24). Synopsis The New Testament presents Jesus as, among other things, “an exorcist par excellence.”[1] Is… Read more »
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Understanding the Trinity
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In Search of Innocence
download PDF In Search of Innocence Keywords: Human nature, innocence, heaven, consciousness Film title: Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Inosensu: Kôkaku Kidôtai) Director: Mamoru Oshii Screenplay: Mamoru Oshii Distributor: DreamWorks SKG Cinema Release Date: 17 September 2004 (USA limited release); 28 October 2005 DVD Release date: 27 February 2006 (UK) Certificate: 15 (UK);… Read more »
Contra Grayling – A critique of “Against All Gods”
download PDF Contra Grayling A Christian Response to Against All Gods (Oberon Books, 2007) By Peter S. Williams (MA, MPhil) A.C. Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, begins his self-described polemic against religion with a question and an answer: ‘Does Religion deserve respect? I argue that it… Read more »
Dawkins’ God Delusion Reviewed
download PDF Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, (Bantam 2006) Reviewed by Peter S. Williams (MA, MPhil) Richard Dawkins has been described as ‘materialistic, reductionist and overtly anti-religious.’[1] Nevertheless, The God Delusion – which is descended by design from the two-part television series The Root of all Evil?[2] – is his first book… Read more »
A Universe from Someone: A critique of Lawrence Krauss
‘A Universe From Someone: Against Lawrence M. Krauss’ A Universe From Nothing‘ https://www.bethinking.org/is-there-a-creator/a-universe-from-someone-against-lawrence-krauss A Universe From Someone: Against Lawrence M. Krauss’ A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Free Press, 2012) – Peter S. Williams (MA, MPhil); Philosopher in Residence at the Damaris Trust; Assistant Professor in Communication and Worldviews… Read more »
Critique of A.C. Grayling’s “The Good Book”
download PDF A.C. Grayling’s The Good Book: A Secular Bible – Reviewed by Peter S. Williams (MA, MPhil), Philosopher in Residence at the Damaris Trust, Assistant Professor in Communication and Worldviews, Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication, Norway. A.C. Grayling’s opening ‘Epistle to the Reader’ declares an aspiration to guide us through… Read more »
Cambridge Union debate – “God is not a delusion”
download PDF Cambridge Union – ‘This house believes that God is not a Delusion’– Opening Speech by Peter S. Williams According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV 2000, p. 765) a delusion is: ‘A false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what… Read more »
Intelligent Designs on Science
download PDF Intelligent Designs on Science: A Surreply to Denis Alexander’s Critique of Intelligent Design Theory Peter S. Williams (MA, MPhil) I am gratified that my paper ‘Theistic Evolution & Intelligent Design in Dialogue’[1] has initiated a real life dialogue between these two fallible human attempts to understand origins. In ‘Designs on Science,’[2] Cambridge… Read more »
Evidence Relating to Prayer for Healing
download PDF Evidence Relating to Answered Prayer for Healing By Peter S. Williams Perhaps the most widely claimed contemporary public experience of the supernatural would be the claim to have witnessed miracles of healing in answer to prayer. According to a 1996 Time magazine poll 82% of adult Americans believe in the healing… Read more »