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    Two Kingdoms in the Third Reich

    An exploration of how so many Christians came to support Nazism, and how some managed to oppose it: from the dejudaised Christianity of the ‘German Christian’ movement, to illicit collaboration of the supposedly anti-Nazi 'Confessing Church'.

    The Accelerating Universe

    Professor Silk will explore the origin of this paradigm shift in our cosmic horizon, and discuss the origin of the acceleration as a phenomenon that we call dark energy.

    Respecting and Transcending Nature

    Science and technology creates moral problems in being able to both improve life and destroy it. How might Tolkein's 'Lord of the Rings' offer us reflections on scientific and religious frameworks which enable us to respect nature on the one hand, while transcending its limits on the other?

    Should We Trust a Theory?

    Can a scientific theory ever be confirmed? Must a scientific theory be falsifiable? Theories such as that of the multiverse and string theory will be considered.

    America's Advents

    The USA in the early 19th century was one of Christian history’s great moments of sectarian creativity. The most notorious such movement, the Millerites, forecast the end of the world for 1844. What happened with the resultant ‘Great Disappointment’?

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