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‘Christianity needs to be explained. The Bible needs to be interpreted and applied. And both involve us, as active agents, doing our best to translate the realities of the gospel into the categories of the contemporary - not to reduce the gospel to contemporary ideas but to allow it to gain access to people’s minds and lives, so that it can begin its work of transformation and renewal'

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‘when rightly understood - and it is so easily misunderstood- theology is about an imaginative enlargement of our vision of God and the corresponding expansion of our mental capacity to grasp and appreciate the rich and rewarding ‘big picture’ of reality that lies and at the heart of the Christian faith’

‘It is not about a quest for exotic or arcane knowledge, or the cultivation of academic arrogance; rather, it is about allowing the light of Christ to shine on our intellects, so that the transforming power of God’s Grace might renew our minds, not merely our souls’

‘Responding to intellectual and cultural criticisms of faith may not lead to conversion and conviction. Yet a failure to response creates the impression that faith is for those who have neither the ability nor inclination to think; that faith lacks any evidential basis; or that the death of faith is the inevitable outcome of cultural progress’