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🗓️ 9 November 2014
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Alister McGrath is the master of apologetics. With three doctorates under his belt and ranked among the '20 most brilliant Christian professors', he's publically locked horns with the likes of Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.
“In the past, we tended to say it’s important to stress Christianity is right. Today it think it’s very important to stress that Christianity works – in other words, that it really can engage with experience and also with the deep questions of life that we wrestle with.” - Alister McGrath
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0:16.4 | So Tim, where are we today then? |
0:18.3 | You know exactly where we are, because I've just driven you here. |
0:20.8 | That was a question for the listener, isn't it? |
0:23.3 | Rather than me. |
0:24.2 | But if you'd have asked the listener, they'd have been unable to answer. |
0:26.5 | So I can understand why you directed it to me. |
0:29.3 | We're in Oxford today. |
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0:33.0 | Pete Ward. |
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0:38.1 | We're sitting in a park in the middle of Oxford. |
0:40.9 | Amazing. |
0:41.5 | Yeah, lots of tourists. |
0:43.5 | Lots of American tourists. |
0:44.9 | Every voice I hear is an American. |
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0:47.5 | Maybe we're in America. |
0:48.8 | No, we're in Oxford. |
0:50.4 | Lots of people with white socks pulled up high. |
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0:59.3 | There's lots of people with baseball caps the wrong way around, |
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