October 24 2011
Craig Blomberg is a distinguished professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary. In addition to writing numerous articles in professional journals, multi-author works and dictionaries or encyclopedias, he has authored or edited 15 books, including The Historical Reliability of the Gospels. He is also one of the 15 translators responsible for the NIV translation of the Bible.
CPX spoke to him about the existence of Jesus, the claimed mistakes found in the New Testament and whether the Bible can be trusted.
October 12 2011
Lynn H. Cohick is associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College. She is a specialist on the Origins of Christianity in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish worlds. Her latest book is Women in the World of the Earliest Christians and she came into CPX to speak with John Dickson on that topic.
August 23 2011
Iain Provan is the Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College in Vancouver where he has taught since 1997 and is a specialist in the Old Testament. He has written numerous essays and articles, and several books including commentaries on Lamentations, 1 and 2 Kings, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs. He is also co-author of a Biblical History of Israel.
He came into CPX to talk with us on a variety of topics relating to the Old Testament.
May 17 2011
Brendan Fletcher is the writer and director of the new Australian film, Mad Bastards, a story of Aboriginal communities in North-West Australia. He came into the CPX studios to speak with Simon Smart about the film.
October 21 2010
CPX talks Dr Ron Sider, Professor of Theology, Holistic Ministry & Public Policy at Palmer Seminary of Eastern University and author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, about religion, poverty and politics.
September 6 2010
Scott Rae is a Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at Biola University and a fellow of the Centre for Bioethics and Human Dignity. CPX caught up with him in Melbourne at the Religion in the Public Square Colloquium put on by the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. We interviewed him on areas of medical and business ethics including abortion, euthanasia, the GFC, business and the environment.
August 20 2010
Richard Swinburne is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many eminent books of the philosophy of religion in general and of the philosophy of Christianity in particular.CPX gathered his thoughts on the violence of the Old Testament, divine revelation, evil and whether he believes there is a renaissance of unbelief.
May 26 2010
Professor Hauerwas is a theologian whose work explores the importance of virtues for living the good life as well as understanding the nature of the Christian Church and its role in the wider world. CPX interviewed him about the connections between religion and violence, the place of Christianity in the modern University, death, friendship and community.
April 23 2010
Professor John Gascoigne is a teacher in the school of history at UNSW. He speaks with Greg Clarke on the impact of the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment on Christianity.
March 31 2010
Simon Smart and Greg Clarke went out on the streets to find out what Easter means to people in Australia today.