Narnia as Myth

Considers various definitions of myth and shows how literary myths deliberately created by an individual differ from myths that develop organically within a society. Concludes the truth within myth is what is important. Includes an extensive quotation from The Last Battle

Ten Questions About Ethics

These ten questions about ethics were suggested by Pollard for a presentation by Professor Peter Kreeft (Philosophy, Boston College) to be held at the Herman Miller Company in Holland, MI. The document includes Mr. Pollard\u27s handwritten notes

How to speak of God? Toward a postsecular apologetics

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Practical Theology on 11/04/2018, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1756073X.2018.1460522Against most expectations religion has not vanished from Western culture. If anything, it exercises a greater fascination than ever before. Broadly, we might think of ourselves as occupying a new, 'postsecular' space between a renewed visibility of religion in public life, and a corresponding acknowledgement of the importance of religious values and actors; and persistent and widespread disillusion and scepticism towards religion, and objections to religion as a source of legitimate public discourse. In a world that is more sensitive than ever to religious belief and practice, yet often struggles to accommodate it into secular discourse, how do religious institutions justify their position in a contested and volatile public square? This article argues that the contemporary postsecular context requires a recovery of the ancient practices of Christian apologetics as a form of public, theological witness to the practical value of faith, articulated in both deed and word

The SUMMA Platform Prototype

We present the first prototype of the SUMMA Platform: an integrated platform for multilingual media monitoring. The platform contains a rich suite of low-level and high-level natural language processing technologies: automatic speech recognition of broadcast media, machine translation, automated tagging and classification of named entities, semantic parsing to detect relationships between entities, and automatic construction / augmentation of factual knowledge bases. Implemented on the Docker platform, it can easily be deployed, customised, and scaled to large volumes of incoming media streams

Ecumenical Jihad: Living as Salt and Light

2001/01/09. Urges Christians of all denominations to unite and be different in world that claims all religions equal, fighting a spiritual struggle. Professor of Philosophy, Boston College. Thomas F. Staley Lecture

How to Win the Culture War

2001/01/08. Argues that we must take Satan seriously and engage in spiritual warfare as Christians, fighting demonic, not human enemies. Professor of Philosophy, Boston College. Thomas F. Staley Lecture