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Aug 28 Medellin and the start of Liberation Theology
Season 8 Episode 28
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Paul VI opened the Second Conference of Latin American Bishops in Medellin, Colombia. This was influenced by the Brazilian educationalist Paolo Freire and his theory on 'conscientisati…
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Aug 27 The Businessman who could be beatified
Season 8 Episode 27
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Enrique Shaw was a successful lifelong businessman from Argentina. As he was dying awaiting for a life saving blood transfusion - hundreds of his employees queued outside the hospital …
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Aug 26 Ivan the Terrible's monk
Season 8 Episode 26
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Adrian of Ondrusuv sacrificed his estate to become a monk after meeting a holy hermit. Ivan the Terrible. a tyrant and cruel leader asked him to be the godfather at his daughters bapt…
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Aug 25 Nietzsche on the murder of God
Season 8 Episode 25
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Friedrich Nietzsche died today in 1900 - one of the most influential intellectuals of the modern era. His relationship with God is much more complex than the famous statement that 'God…
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Aug 24 Non Conformists and the Book of Common Prayer
Season 8 Episode 24
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Today approximately 2000 puritans resigned their pulpits as deadline came for forced assent to the Book of Common Prayer. We look at the remarkable impact they have had in both Britain …
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Aug 23 Brother Roger, the flowering of ecumenism & his violent death
Season 8 Episode 23
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The Taize ecumenical monastic community in France was founded by Roger Schultz in the ashes of WW2. It still attracts thousands of young people every year as a community of reconciliat…
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Aug 22 Henri de Lubac & Spiritual Worldliness
Season 8 Episode 22
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De Lubac was one of the most influential theologians of the 20th Century. His experience of WW1 and WW2 was followed by 10 years being banned from teaching by the Vatican. He was appoin…
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Aug 21 Adam Gifford and the Gifford Lectures
Season 8 Episode 21
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In his will dated today - Lord Adam Gifford, a Scottish Judge - bequeathed a large amount of money to annual lectureship in Natural Theology. Held in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and …
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Aug 20 Demythologising Rudolph Bultmann
Season 8 Episode 20
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Bultmann was one of the most influential post-war theologians in the quest for the historical Jesus. His theory of 'demytholigisation' however is now widely discredited ,,,, we explore…
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Aug 19 The Exodus and the Moabite Stone
Season 8 Episode 19
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The discovery of a fascinating ancient stone in the Jordan has given us a fascinating peak into the world of the Tribe of Israel during its Exodus from Egypt
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