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Dr Alison Milbank looks at how the great Italian poet, Dante Alighieri (c.1265-1321), can be seen a someone presenting his fellow Christians with a unique theology through his masterpiece: La Divina Commedia
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Prof. Alan Ford takes the religious history of Ireland as an example of how important is for historians to examine religious dimension of the past societies -- and how that religious history impacts on historians
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Anyone reading the historical books of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament can be shocked that warfare figures so prominently in the writings held by many as sacred. Dr Carly Crouch examines how warfare was understood within the religious worldview of ancient Israel.
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Professor Philip Goodchild argues that way we use money amounts to a belief system, and what we say about money is, in fact, a form of theology.
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The Pharisees led an important religious movement in ancient Judaism around the time of Jesus. Here Prof. Roland Deines discusses their beliefs, their practices, and their influence -- in particular in relationship to Jesus of Nazareth.
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Prophecy was a major institution in the religion of ancient Israel, and the writings left by the prophets make up a major part of the collection known by some as 'the Hebrew Bible' and by others as 'the Old Testament.'
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Jesus, a Jewish teacher from Nazareth in Galilee, is one of the central religious figures of history. Here Prof. Roland Deines discusses what we know of his life.
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'The Hebrew Bible' is the name given to the collection of ancient writings that come from Judaism and constitute 'the bible' for Jews and which makes up the major part of the 'Old Testament' read by Christians.
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John Milbank introduces the significance of Henri de Lubac (1896-1991), one of major Catholic theologians of the last century whose work inspires theologians far beyond the boundaries of Catholicism.
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The mother of Jesus, Mary, is revered in many branches of Christianity as the all-holy Mother of God. In this video Dr Mary Cunningham looks at the origins of devotion to Mary, and her place in Orthodox and Catholic theology and belief.
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Hermeneutics is the study of how to interpret texts that come from a different culture, time, language and world view.
So it is a skill that is valuable in many aspects of study, but especially when reading ancient religious texts such as the Bible.
Prof. Anthony Thiselton tries to capture the key insights of a life devoted to the study of hermeneutics. -
Ussher (1581-1656) is now principally remembered for just one thing: giving the date of the creation as 4004 B.C.! In this video Prof Alan Ford sets him in his context as a great Protestant scholar who made contributions to patristics, biblical studies, and the church and society of his time.
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Spinoza (1632-1677) is now remembered mainly as a philosopher. But he was also deeply concerned with religious and theological questions.
In this video, Professor Agata Bielik-Robson argues that he has to be seen as presenting a particular view of the divine and as representative of a distinctive spirituality. -
Professor Alan Ford introduces the notion of historiography: the history of history.
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Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) was a German Lutheran theologian whose work highlighted the difficulties of treating early Christian texts as simple historical narratives, while at the same time highlighting their importance as documents of faith.
Henri Gagey, from the Institut Catholique in Paris, is an expert on Bultmann's theology and presents an introduction to it here. -
Most English-speakers, when they think of Christianity, think only of its Latin, western forms - be they Catholic or Protestant. But this is only half the story: there are also all the churches of the East, often collectively referred to as 'the Orthodox'.
In this video, Mary Cunningham, and expert on Orthodoxy, introduces them. -
Henry Gagey, an expert in fundamental theology from the Institut Catholique in Paris, discusses why people take up the study of theology and how it can affect their approach to life and belief.
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