by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 7, 2025 | Pulse
Credo 7 April 2025 The Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him (Habakkuk 2:20) One of the more noticeable features of the modern Church – especially its Protestant / Evangelical expressions – is the erosion of the idea of sacred places or...
by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 17, 2025 | Pulse
Pulse 17 March 2025 We can say, without exaggeration, that one of the most worrying maladies that plague the inhabitants of the modern age is attention deficit. In many ways, this problem is so subtle that it often goes unnoticed – it escapes our attention (pun...
by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 3, 2025 | Pulse
Pulse 3 March 2025 About two years ago, The Guardian reported that ‘The Church of England is to consider backing more environmentally-friendly methods of disposing of dead bodies, including water cremation and human composting.’ Water cremation – also known as...
by Dr Roland Chia | Feb 17, 2025 | Pulse
Pulse 17 February 2025 In his article entitled ‘Is God the Son Begotten in His Divine Nature?’ published in TheoLogica (2018), the American philosopher William Lane Craig argues that the begetting of the Son by the Father ‘enjoys no clear scriptural support and...
by Dr Roland Chia | Feb 3, 2025 | Pulse
Pulse 3 February 2025 One of the most profound and instructive statements attributed to the fifth century theologian, Augustine of Hippo, is his dictum ‘Si comprehendis, non est Deus’ (‘if you understand it, it isn’t God!’). By this dictum, Augustine is not suggesting...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 20, 2025 | Pulse
Pulse 20 January 2025 Earlier this month, I published an article which discusses some of the deficiencies of a theological method that gives primacy to the analytical mode, using the tools supplied by analytical philosophy. I pointed out that such an...
