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A dialogue with Philip Pullman's complex 'Dark Materials' trilogy which provides a framework for discussing how human beings relate to the material world, and the origin of evil.
How can we find the best explanation of what we observe? Why do human beings enjoy pondering puzzles, such as the meaning of life? We can we learn much from Dorothy L. Sayers, whose detective novels and religious writings saw human beings as searching for 'patterns' in life.
Dr Black is a Professor at the Politics, Philosophy and Economics Department at the University of Lancaster. He received his MA and PhD in the Study of Religions from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Professor Hutton is Professor of History at the University of Bristol. He took degrees at Cambridge and then Oxford Universities, and was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He is now a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical
Most English people initially saw the Reformation as an unexpected catastrophe, wrenching their religious lives out of shape, and stripping their communities of resources they had naively believed belonged to them.
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.
Is science complete in itself, or does it act as a pointer or signpost to matters beyond its boundaries? C.S. Lewis argued that nature bears witness to the existence and nature of God, and developed the idea in works such as 'Miracles' and 'The Chronicles of Narnia.'
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