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What if Marriage Is Bad for Us?
Lost in Translation? By Simmi Aujla

The Bible and Critical Theory

Roland Boer, Rescuing the Bible: A response
Anne Elvey
The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2: 20.1-20.8.
http://publications.epress.monash.edu/doi/abs/10.2104/bc090020?ai=rs&ui=mim&af=T
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How the Bible can be red: Some thoughts on Roland Boer’s Rescuing the
Bible
George Aichele
The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2: 21.1-21.7.
http://publications.epress.monash.edu/doi/abs/10.2104/bc090021?ai=rs&ui=mim&af=T
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A religious left assessment of Roland Boer’s Rescuing the Bible
David Jobling
The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol. 5, [...]

Review of John Locke’s An Essay On Human Understanding

John Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding (1690): A Brief Review 
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (AECHU) is perhaps John Locke’s most influential work. Arguably this essay has contributed to the establishment of the modern school of empiricism.[1] Below we will survey briefly the work in question.
As well argued in AECHU and equally by empiricists, “sense experience” [...]

Roland Barthes: Text & Meaning, the author & the Reader

The Author and the Script
Barthes proposes that the author has a name, a biography, a life, and a history. In the same way, a script presupposes such elements: a biography, a voice, a life and a history in its own. According to Barthes, the “idea” of the script is connected with the idea of the [...]

Understanding Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics

Friedrich Schleiermaacher (1768-1834) was a German philosopher, christian thelogian,  classical philologist and is known as the “Father” of liberalism in Protestant circle. Critics have often emphasized his contention that “religion is an intuitive feeling for and dependence on the infinite realm, not a set of moral or metaphysical principles; religion needed no external justification” (“The Norton [...]