Faith in Scholarship

20/05/2026

Tomorrow (online, 8pm UK time) we're looking at the great ages of the patriarchs of Genesis... can statistical analyses of ancient data guide our view on what they mean?

Michael Thompson is fascinated, like many of us, by the grand ages of the patriarchs in the early chapters of Genesis.  It’s not simply that Noah’s ancestors each live well over 700 years: from Noah Read more

11/05/2026

Waking up to the law side of reality https://thinkfaith.net/2026/05/11/waking-up-to-the-law-side-of-reality Most of what we study is invisible, intangible, not even a thing. That isn’t a criticism; rather, I believe this is a profound realisation that shows how scholarship assumes a more-than-material world.

01/05/2026

How to use (or avoid) AI... Join the Forming a Christian Mind seminar in London on Weds 13 May...

London Seminars Regular seminars to facilitate cross-city relationships and to support local London postgraduate groups London is a unique context with many universities but significant practical o…

04/04/2026

The great silence https://thinkfaith.net/2026/04/04/the-great-silence The approach to Easter this year comes at a time of great upheaval and instability, in the Middle East and across the world. There’s nothing new there, perhaps: amid the ongoing post-Covid global permacrisis, with new ‘wars and rumours of wars’ seeming to spring up on a near-monthly basis, each new cycle of the Christian calendar provides us with an opportunity to set our own all-too-human chaos against the fathomless order of God’s eternal plans.

30/03/2026

Religious and Scientific Landscapes https://thinkfaith.net/2026/03/30/religious-and-scientific-landscapes It needs to be more widely known that the “history of the conflict between religion and science” essentially originates in one book of that title of 18751 ( -aa3e-4460-bfa5-2276e268e18f), with encouragement from a History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom in 18972 ( -1ace-4573-a476-4ed7d5596774). War between science and religion is “the idea that wouldn’t die”, according to a recent collection of essays3 ( -2115-47d6-a08b-54e6c6602233), but Peter Harrison’s 2015 book The Territories of Science and Religion (which I reviewed (https://thinkfaith.net/2020/04/07/charting-the-territories-of-science-and-religion/) a while ago) goes further to show how such a conflict is simply inconceivable before the nineteenth century since ‘religion’ and ‘science’ had such different meanings in earlier discourses as to render the very notion meaningless.

02/03/2026

Can Language Remain Human in the Age of Large Language Models? https://thinkfaith.net/2026/03/02/can-language-remain-human-in-the-age-of-large-language-models I have been reading and studying Studies in Words by C. S. Lewis1 ( -acd3-4d13-9c0f-bf102a72e279) since 1991.

25/02/2026

Tomorrow we'll be talking with Nick Spencer about his new book (with Hannah Waite): 'The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What are we disagreeing about?' Sign up at Thinking Faith Network to join us on Zoom (8pm UK time).

Nick and Hannah have done over 100 interviews with scholars and a national public survey to find out what the contested territories of 'science' and 'religion' look like in the UK today.

The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About? (Spencer & Waite, Oxford, 2025). Nick Spencer will share the story of this book, dedicated to Tom McLeish, and explain some of the key Read more

18/02/2026

Review: Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement https://thinkfaith.net/2026/02/18/review-attensity-a-manifesto-of-the-attention-liberation-movement The Friends of Attention, Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/478341/attensity-by-attention-the-friends-of/9780241810965), eds.

11/02/2026

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04/02/2026

Imaging our Creator; imaging ourselves? https://thinkfaith.net/2026/02/04/imaging-our-creator-imaging-ourselves I wrote a while ago (https://thinkfaith.net/2023/03/29/artificial-intelligence-in-the-image-of-god/) about a biblical way to construe AI. It’s an analogy, and it goes like this.