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Students and staff are welcome to join this group, whatever religious views they hold. Each meeting is a chance to read and reflect together on passages from the bible, pondering such questions as “what was the author wanting to say?” and “what meaning could this have for us today?” (more…)
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This group has a specific focus on reading the Bible with International Students, from any background, faith or belief. Each meeting provides an opportunity to read a specific Bible passage, reflect on the context in which it was written, learn to cross reference to relevant passages elsewhere in the Bible, and look at how the passage relates to our everyday life in a modern-day setting. No preparation is required! Simply come along to read, discover and share your thoughts in an informal and relaxed setting!
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Freud is famous for portraying religion as a collective neurosis of mankind: religious beliefs give expression to wish-fulfilling illusions serving the immature emotional needs of the child living on within the adult. Such illusions – he sternly maintains – should be cast aside and replaced by ideas corresponding to reality – namely, the materialistic world view that emerges gradually but inescapably from the cumulative process of scientific observation.
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Bristol Cathedral is one of England’s great medieval churches. It originated as an Augustinian Abbey, founded c.1140 by prominent local citizen, Robert Fitzharding, who became first Lord Berkeley. (more…)