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Nick Spencer appears in this month’s TLS on the limited ambitions of ethical thinking.

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“Ethics today is in a curious state,. There is no shortage of people telling us that Western civilisation is facing a moral crisis, that the old foundation of Christianity has been removed but nothing has been put in its place. Christian writers such as Alister McGrath and Nicker Spencer have warned that we’re running on the moral capital of a religion we’ve long abandoned. I’s only a matter of time before, like Wile E. Coyote, we realize we’ve run off a moral cliff, impossibly suspended in mid–air only as long as we fail to realize there’s nothing under our feet”

 

Read the full article in the TLS.

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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of The Landscapes of Science and Religion (OUP, 2025), Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity (2024), and Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023). Nick is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 30 May 2018

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