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The External Financing Position

For most of the period since we have had records, the UK has held a positive net international investment positions versus the rest of the world. But the UK is now a net debtor. What are the reasons for this extraordinary reversal and what does it mean for the exchange rate?

The Gospel of Apartheid

South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and the Afrikaner people it served had, since the 17th century drawn a distinction between white ‘Christians’ and the apparently unconvertible ‘heathen’ peoples around them. Theology legitimised apartheid, but was also instrumental in its end.

Is Humanity Naturally Good?

Can we give a purely scientific account of human nature in terms of its physical, chemical and biological components. Richard Dawnkins' 'The Selfish Gene' is considered to see how a scientific narrative about selfish genes might correlate with a theological narrative about sin.

What will happen when Artificial Intelligence and the Internet meet the Professions?

In the long run, in an Internet society, it is claimed, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. - Is this true?

Exploring the Influence of Theology on Scientific Research Programmes: Natural Theology In Reverse

THE ANNUAL BOYLE LECTURE The Boyle lectures address topics which...

Debt and the Household Balance Sheet

A consideration of the evolution of the asset and liability position of the UK's household, firm and government sector prior to the financial crisis and where we currently stand in terms of adjustment that is still required.

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'.

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?

Macroeconomics, Capitalism and Inequality

Rapid economic growth in the emerging worlds has placed downward pressure of manufacturing wages in the advanced world. With increasingly lower real interest rates putting upwards pressure on asset prices, these twin forces have the propensity to accelerate income inequality. What do the facts say?

To What Extent Did The Adventists Bring Stability To A Changing World?

A question from the lecture 'America's Advents' by Professor Alec...

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