Author: Anthony Freeman

What is Mystical Experience?

Anthony Freeman reviews recent theories about mystical experience. The Experiments Richard Dawkins is well known as a militant atheist, but he is also an experimental scientist, and in 2003 he took part in an experiment...

Open up to God

Open up to God Anthony Freeman suggests that just as consciousness is an ‘emergent property’ of the brain, so ‘God’ is an emergent property of human consciousness. Introduction In a recent article for this magazine...

The Old Creed and the New

This conclusion follows from the themes already stated. Life ‘after’ death is excluded by the outsideless nature of life: ‘We cannot meaningfully claim that a new post-mortem life will begin after we die, because we...

The Once and Future Self

His book,God in the Bath,is published by O Books in October. ‘Curving’ by Christopher Truman The Once and Future Self Anthony Freeman gave this as a talk at the March 2006 SoF London Conference on...

Bless My Soul!

Anthony Freeman takes a fresh look at human and divine personhood. The Steering Committee decided that this was a decision for the Network Membership to take at the AGM. sof 72 July 2005 All of...

Christian Humanism – a Gospel to Proclaim

Religion has long seen its ideal world as a radicalhumanist world. “The point may be made in even stronger terms. On the walls of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, Michelangelo has represented the whole...

Christian Humanism: a Gospel to Proclaim

As We Were Saying… (Retrospective: Issues 1–10, 1990–1992)

Numbers with noughts on the end seem to entice us to look backwards, whether it’s the year 2000, a 10th anniversary… or just the 40th number of Sea of Faith magazine. So we’ve been blowing...

Theology and the Church

…by Anthony Freeman who was dismissed from his parochial post at the end of July 1994 for the views expressed in his book ‘God In Us’. This article was presented as a talk to a...

The Living Jesus