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Summer School 2012 – IMAGO DEI: dignified, degraded or redeemed

by RZIM Office on 1 December, 2011

At present the Oxford Summer School is sold out! However, it is possible that a few rooms MAY be made available after 22nd February, 1012. We are therefore compiling a waiting list on a first-come, first-served basis. Please email Liz on office@rzim.eu if you would like to be put on the waiting list.     The [...]

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Pulse Magazine – Issue 9

by RZIM Office on 17 October, 2011

Welcome to the ninth issue of Pulse, the apologetics magazine published by our ministry.
This includes all the latest information about RZIM Europe and the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, as well as articles on evangelism and apologetics, details about training opportunities and much more.

Aren’t religions all the same?

by Amy Orr-Ewing on 14 October, 2011

We live in a context of spiritual longing. Many people are searching for that which will satisfy an inner craving for meaning and significance. The artist Damian Hirst recently said this: “Why do I feel so important when I’m not? Nothing is important and everything is important. I do not know why I am here [...]

How can you say that there is a good God of love when…..?

by RZIM Office on 20 September, 2011

People regularly ask that question when a massive catastrophe like the Japanese earthquake happens, but also in cases of individual tragedy, such as the young Mum dying of cancer and leaving her children motherless. The Christian says in response to that question: believing in a good God does not mean that we believe in a [...]

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Meet Our Associates – Kosta Milkov

Kosta Milkov has recently finished a doctorate in Patristic Theology at the University of Oxford. Kosta and his wife, Nada, currently run the Balkan Institute for Faith and Culture (BIFC). He is a visiting lecturer of theology at Evangelical Theological Seminary, Osijek, Croatia, a Senior Associate of RZIM Europe and an ordained minister in the Evangelical Church in Macedonia. Kosta, Nada and their daughter Gabriela live in Skopje, Macedonia.

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Making History: The “war” between Science and Religion

If you ask many people today what they think about science’s relationship to religion, you are likely to be told that the two have been in conflict for a very long time. There was the trial of Galileo by the Inquisition, for example, the debate between Wilberforce and Huxley, and there is still an on-going dispute over the teaching of evolution in American schools. These usual suspects may be trotted out whenever this topic is mentioned, but are events such as these really typical of the history of science as a whole?

Contrary to the impression given by some commentators, the conflict thesis between science and religion is one that has been discredited in academic circles for some time. The rise of science in the West was, of course, a very complicated affair in which many different factors played a part. There were certainly inevitable points of tension, but this does detract from the fact that Europe was a largely Christian continent in which religious individuals and institutions inevitably played a central role in the changes that occurred.

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Apologetics in your area: Manchester

Many people contact RZIM asking about how they can begin to get involved with evangelism and apologetics. Getting appropriate training is of course an important first step, but even after attending apologetics courses it isn’t always clear what to do next.

One practical way of applying your knowledge is to develop your own apologetics group in your local area, which is what one collection of RZIM supporters have done in Manchester. We caught up with one of the organisers, Philip Lewis, who shared with us more about how the initiative began…

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Starting with Questions

Starting with a question seems like a good idea to most people: it helps to bring a sharper focus; it’s conversational; it reveals gaps in knowledge and it’s quite natural – kids seem to use questions instinctively to find out about the world. Of course, there are lazy questions and there are thoughtful questions. The difference is hard to explain, but anyone who has ever heard, or asked a great question, asked at the right time, will immediately know why good, careful, thoughtful questions are always worth asking.

Christians have often pointed to the example of God asking Adam and Eve, ‘Where are you?’ (Genesis 3:9), and the way in which Jesus interacts with people in the New Testament.

So, perhaps starting with questions isn’t such a bad idea after all, is it? Even so, some Christians are suspicious of starting with questions.

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