Category: Christianity and Ethics
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God is in the world, not just the Bible
11 July 2024. Nigel on The Natural Theologian podcast. In this podcast, Nigel joins King Laugh and Joel Carini of The Natural Theologian to discuss theological method and more.
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Christian Realism
27 March 2024. By Nigel Biggar. The issue of how the moral principles stemming from the example and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth should be applied to political life has always been uncertain and controversial. This largely because, as the son of a village carpenter in 1st century Palestine, Jesus had no responsibility of any…
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The Inspiration Project
16 November 2023. Nigel joins Brendan Corr of The Inspiration Project, an Australian Christian College (ACC) podcast. Listen through the player or ACC link below. From the ACC website description: On this episode of The Inspiration Project, Brendan Corr talks to Emeritus Professor Nigel Biggar about what attracted him to an academic life, why books…
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The left doesn’t mean what it says
28 October 2023. The Spectator. ‘Nigel Biggar, from the University of Oxford, says a new progressive has emerged, which is far more cynically-motivated than the old kind. These new progressives back fashionable, left-wing causes for money, and because their thinking is founded in a kind of warped Christianity. To explain, Nigel joins Cindy Yu.’
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Conference, ‘Faithful to the Call: Renewing Theological Ethics from the Ground Up’
The 2022 McDonald Centre Annual Conference was hosted in May. The presentations featured at the conference are now available on YouTube. See the playlist for the ‘Faithful to the Call: Renewing Theological Ethics from the Ground Up’ conference event here. Alternatively, see links to the following sessions below: McDonald Distinguished Lecture SeriesProfessor Oliver O’Donovan: “Statues”Professor Nigel Biggar: ‘”Honour…
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Whatever happened to the Canaanites?
Nigel Biggar has published an article in a special issue of Studies in Christian Ethics 35, no. 1 (November 2021). The issue features essays gathered around the theme ‘Truth, lies, and Christian ethics’. Biggar’s article is titled ‘Whatever Happened to the Canaanites? Principles of a Christian Ethic of Mass Immigration’ (pp. 127-139). The open access article can…
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Biggar on ‘The Thin Red Line’
Listen to Providence’s latest Dark Ops podcast (episode 17). Executive Editor and McDonald Visiting Scholar Marc LiVecche sits down with Nigel Biggar to discuss Terrence Malick’s 1998 war film The Thin Red Line, which is based on the 1962 autobiographical novel by James Jones and his experiences in the Guadalcanal campaign of the Second World War. The podcast can be streamed at…
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Oxford Conversations
Oxford Conversations is a project designed to inspire postgraduate students and younger academics to pursue excellence in academic research and to consider ways to integrate work and faith through curated discussions with a range of Christian scholars and educators in Oxford, including Nigel Biggar, John Finnis and Alister McGrath. The conversations range across a variety of themes, including the academic journeys…
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Christianity and Liberalism
In response to the criticisms raised by Kwame Anthony Appiah against the idea of “Western Civilisation” in last year’s Reith Lectures, Nigel Biggar argues in an op-ed in The Times that the idea has considerable merit and, further, that we must take seriously its historic roots in Christianity. A copy of the article is available to read here.
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Does Morality Need Religion?
2013 Annual McDonald Centre Conference, University of Oxford For centuries, atheism was suppressed because of its supposed amorality. Now, New Atheists such as A.C. Grayling and Sam Harris argue that decent, liberal morality is perfectly possible without religious belief—indeed, that it is only possible without it. Others, such as Jürgen Habermas, acknowledge that Christianity has had a…