Adam Sedgwick
(1785–1873)Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge, where he modernized the teaching of geology. He is best known for unravelling the stratigraphy of North Wales (the Cambrian System) which ...
Alexander Crombie
(1762–1840)Alexander Crombie was born in Aberdeen on 17 July 1762 and died at his estate at Phesdo, Kincardineshire in February 1840. He studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen, where he ...
Antony Garrard Newton Flew
(1923–)Antony Flew was born on 11 February 1923 in Ealing, London, England. He attended St. Faith’s Preparatory School, Kingswood School, and St. John’s College, Oxford, where he earned a ...
atheism
The theory or belief that God does not exist. The word comes (in the late 16th century, via French) from Greek atheos, from a- ‘without’ + theos ‘god’.
Bernard Boedder
(1841–1916)Father Bernard Boedder was born in The Netherlands on 18 May 1841 and died in Valkenberg, also in The Netherlands, on 4 December 1916. On 1 October 1863 he ...
Bernard Mandeville
(c.1670–1733)Dutch doctor and moral philosopher. Born in Rotterdam of a distinguished medical family, Mandeville settled in Britain shortly after taking his degree in 1691. He is known for The Fable ...
Boyle Lectures
Robert Boyle is best remembered today for his contributions to the natural sciences of chemistry and pneumatics. What is less well known is that Boyle was also a devout Christian ...
Carneades
(c.214–129 bc)The most prominent member of the later Academy after Arcesilaus. Carneades was a distinguished sceptic, famous (especially through the report by Cicero) for impressive speeches at Rome ...
Charles Bell
(1774–1842)Charles Bell was born in Edinburgh in November 1774 and died at Hallow Park, near Worcester on 28 April 1842. He received his early training in the ‘Arts of ...
Charles Darwin
(1809–82)British naturalist, who studied medicine in Edinburgh followed by theology at Cambridge University, intending a career in the Church. However, his interest in natural history led him to ...
Christocentric
1 Of systems of theology which maintain that God has never revealed Himself to humanity except in the Incarnate Christ; they preclude the possibility of natural religion.2 More generally, of any set ...
Clement Charles Julian Webb
(1865–1954)Clement Charles Julian Webb was born in London on 25 June 1865 and died in Oxford on 5 October 1954. He was the son of Benjamin Webb, a noted ...
David Masson
(1822–1907),biographer, critic, journalist, was successively professor of English literature at University College London (1853) and Edinburgh University (1865). He is remembered for his standard ...
Emil Brunner
(1889–1966), Swiss dialectical theologian. From 1922 to 1953 he taught mainly at Zurich. He supported K. Barth in opposing theological liberalism, but he was sharply divided from him by the influence ...
Eustace Rogers Conder
(1820–92)Eustace Rogers Conder was born in St Albans on 5 April 1820 and died in Leeds on 6 July 1892. He was the son of Josiah and the grandson ...
existence of God
Standard arguments for the existence of God have derived either from experience of the natural world, as seen in the cosmological argument and the teleological argument (otherwise known as the ...
fideism
A view that is pessimistic about the role of reason in achieving knowledge of things divine, and that emphasizes instead the merit of acts of faith.
Frank Harold Cleobury
(1892–1981)F. H. Cleobury was born in London on 6 November 1892 and died in Herne Bay, Kent on 25 March 1981. Following secondary education at Aske's Boys' School, Cleobury ...
George Hayward Joyce
(1864–1943)George Hayward Joyce was born in Harrow-on-the-Hill on 13 November 1864 and died at Heythrop College, Oxfordshire on 15 November 1943. He was educated at Charterhouse (1878–83) and at ...
Gifford Lectures
A series of lectures delivered in Scottish universities under the foundation of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford (1820–87), for promoting and diffusing the knowledge of God and the foundation of ethics. ...
