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Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle

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Revelation and Its Limits

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Richard asks how it can be decided that it is really God at the other end of a revelation.

Richard Holloway asks how it can be decided that it is really God who is at the other end of a revelation, when only the human side of the transaction can be captured.

In a series of personal essays Richard Holloway considers the tensions between faith and doubt over the last 3000 years. Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway, focuses on the Judeo-Christian tradition as he takes the listener from the birth of religious thinking, through the Old and New Testaments, to the developments in subsequent centuries and their influence on thinkers and writers, up to the present-day. 

In today's programme Richard Holloway explores the idea of revelation: "The claim is that the God who is beyond our ability to reach unaided makes himself available to our senses, sometimes through sight, sometimes through sound. Inevitably, we can only capture the human side of this transaction, so how can we decide whether it's really God who's at the other end? That's the big question before us."

In this programme he talks to the writer Karen Armstrong, to the American poet Jennifer Hecht, and to Harvey Cox, Emeritus Professor of Divinity at Harvard.


Producer: Olivia Landsberg
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Richard Holloway presents a series on the relationship between faith and doubt

Richard Holloway, writer and former Bishop of Edinburgh, presents a series of personal essays on the relationship between faith and doubt over the last 3,000 years

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