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July 2008
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Angels in the classroom

Greg Clarke / April 2003

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The Case for Angels
Peter S. Williams
Paternoster, 2002, 211pp.

Francis Schaeffer apparently began a university philosophy lecture with the startling admission that he believed in angels. “There really is no point you listening to my philosophical arguments if you don't grasp the profound importance of this fact”, he said (or words to that effect!).

It was a bold move then, and it is a bold move now, notwithstanding the New Age acceptability of some kind of spiritual worldview. Peter Williams, a British philosopher and Christian, has,

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God: The Man Chaser

Colin Buchanan / April 2003

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There is a best-selling Christian book by American author Tommy Tenney called The God Chasers. If you have seen any Christian bookstore catalogues I'm sure you've seen the book or the companion merchandise. It's been something of a phenomenon. After visiting the US, I was given a copy so I started reading it. Tenney's pitch seems to be this: there are normal vanilla-flavoured household variety Christians who drift passively along in the slow lane of Christian experience and then there are the God Chasers. They get the scent of God and run

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Absolute truth: An interview with Dr R. Albert Mohler, Jnr

Peter Hastie / April 2003

From Australian Presbyterian, copyright February 2003. Used by permission.

Dr R. Albert Mohler, Jr. is president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world.

A leader among American evangelicals, Dr Mohler was listed in a Time magazine cover story as one of its “50 for the Future”—50 persons under age 40 who are emerging national leaders in their fields. Dr Mohler is a theologian and an ordained minister.

He holds a Master of Divinity

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