As part of the New Zealand festival last Saturday’s third Embassy session was a public conversation between Diarmaid MacCulloch Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University and the award-winning author of A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, and Peter Biggs, the chair of the New Zealand Book Council, “Having Faith in 21 Century.
In his review Listener columnist David Larsen said, “So what is the point of the religion, exactly? ‘To give us a sense of proportion and humility, not to be obsessed with our own salvation. We need to balance ourselves by turning from ourselves.’ This atheist came away deeply impressed.
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