Bruce Charlton's Notions

I found it impossible to get a grip on the absolutely core question (for Christians) of human freedom or 'agency' (i.e. being an act...

It seems to be the case that demons can and do attack humans in various ways; including planting thought and desires. Once this is accepted,...

Thinking affects the world - just as we knew it did when we were young children.  We knew then that thoughts come into our mind from outsid...

I think it is becoming evident that the traditional conception of 'a Christian Life' - which was essentially about obedience to God...

We live in a post-modern, post-scientific age of incoherence ; where we demand two simultaneous incompatibles:  1. That reality ought to be ...

DANE-GELD It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation, To call upon a neighbour and to say: "We invaded you last night -...

The " Biggles " (christened James Bigglesworth) series of books were published by Captain WE Johns between 1932 and 1970 (two year...

One of the good, positive things about these evil-dominated end times is that - probably for the first time since the ascension of Christ - ...

William Wildblood has provided a characteristically lucid explanation of why 'neutrality' with respect to the spiritual war between...

In my time working in the UK universities and National Health Service - these functions were brought under managerial control, and integrate...

Independent of its musical quality; there is a fair bit of classical music since the later 19th century that communicates to me an atmospher...

The Antichrist phenomenon (and I regard it as essentially a phenomenon rather than a person) is discourse that is mostly-Christian but where...

I have often reviewed 'esoteric' spiritual teachings from the last decades of the twentieth century - and even among those that I wo...

Members of Christian churches may have noticed that, just as 'obedience' nowadays means compliance with the agenda of evil; 'uni...

It is generally appreciated that some combination of both effort and ability is necessary to achieve anything positive and constructive in t...

And suddenly, like a thunderbolt, the realisation fell into my mind, so that I felt the roots of my hair stir with it. Of course! That was t...

All material is spiritual but the spiritual is larger than the material. This means that all material impositions Just Are Spiritual. So th...

The subject of love is clearly one of vital, indeed core, importance to Christians - but 'love' has also become a core assertion of ...

Note: The 'medieval soul' is what I will call Rudolf Steiner's category of the 'intellectual soul' and it describes the ...

Thirteen is the age of what Shaw calls ‘the birth of the moral passion’ - that is, the period when ideas are not abstractions but realities,...

From 1956 onwards; Colin Wilson identified the prevailing pessimism of the Western intellectual class - writers, visual artists, philosoph...