Bruce Charlton's Notions

There is no substantive difference between, on the one hand, the theology of orthodox-traditional Christian monotheism - with its Omni-God ...

At my Notion Club Papers blog ; I discuss the question of why Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli, spent so much time and effort on conducting Borom...

Geopolitics is everywhere, you can't get away from it, and it is nigh impossible to escape falling into engaging in it.  People do geopo...

Purgatory is one of those concepts that I regard as false, but having some truth behind it.  That truth is mortal Men differ greatly in good...

If we can all accept that being a (real) Christian entails making a personal commitment to the primacy of (real) Love as a value - while lea...

The vulnerability to "AI"-capture seems to run deepest among intellectuals - but this vulnerability extends across a very wide ran...

I live in a relatively leafy suburb containing many forest-sized trees such as oaks, beeches, horse chestnuts, limes - plus common sycamores...

One effect of modernity (and our atheist, materialist, utilitarian ideological assumptions) is that the question of Life has all-but disappe...

"The official story" is always wrong, and also  fundamentally misleading*.  And it probably always has been - albeit getting worse...

So much depends on motivation; but can it be improved?   Yes, I think so - but this is not easy or straightforward, and needs to be approach...

People confuse honesty with truthfulness.  Truthfulness implies a positive motivation to know reality - essentially for its own sake; becaus...

In those days - now receding fast! - when real science was happening at a large scale, as a social system; its progress functioned by indivi...

If it is agreed that the Fourth Gospel is of primary validity ; then the other three "Synoptic" Gospels (Mathhew, Mark, and Luke) ...

Note: In what follows; I take the Fourth Gospel ("John") as my eyewitness source for the life of Jesus final years.  If we are to ...

I don't think that we can really appreciate literary genius outwith out own - high level - language ability. The field of "comparat...

What I am trying to explain in this post; is how it is that so many serious Christians end-up expending so much energy on defending and asse...

The 15th September was chosen to commemorate the Battle of Britain , since it was this day in 1940 that was the turning-point.  I have misla...

I recently posted about some of the "Systems" which we might imagine God setting-up to provide humans with revelation; and someth...

Today we saw the base that remains from perhaps the oldest surviving decorated stone rood in England;  now forming the base of the font in A...

The ancient symbolisation of light (and white) for goodness used to be more than just symbolism. In the ancient past symbols were also reali...

An RAF spotters guide to identifying the He 113 - an aircraft that did not exist.  The extent to which it is true that we see what we expect...