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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 m…
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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 …
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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 y…
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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 bein…
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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 T…
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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 'demytholigisatio…
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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 duri…
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Aug 18 Filming the Exorcist
Season 8 Episode 18
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Warner Brothers most financially successful film the Exorcist was written by a student of Georgetown University, William Peter Blatty…
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Aug 17 Excavating Armageddon
Season 8 Episode 17
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We look at the site of Megiddo, why it was strategically fought over for centuries, and what archaeologists have found there. In Gr…
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Apr 16 Operation Baptism - smuggling Jews away from the Nazis
Season 8 Episode 16
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We look at the audacious 'Operation Baptism' which had the blessing of Pope Pius XII. Hundreds of Jews where rescued from Hungary and…
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