by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
As society becomes increasingly secular, religion is slowly edged towards the periphery of public life and reduced to a private experience without any social implications. The Christian faith is intrinsically opposed to the privatisation of religion because of its...
by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
The recent spate of natural disasters and the serious threat of the avian flu pandemic have led some Christians to think that perhaps we are living in the period when the predictions of Jesus in Matthew 24 are being fulfilled. Even the media is beginning to speak of...
by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
The phrase ‘sign of the cross’ refers to various liturgical or devotional acts which trace the two lines intersecting at right angles, indicating symbolically the figure of Jesus’ cross. For evangelical Protestants, whose devotional and liturgical experience does not...
by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
Although significant progress is being made in the interaction between science and Christianity in this century, there remains a residual hostility between them that can be traced to the nineteenth century. When modern science as we know it first appeared in...
by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
The separation of religion from politics, resulting in the notion of ‘private religion’, is the outcome of the secularism associated with the 18th century European Enlightenment. Before that time, religion was always a matter for the whole community, and never just...
