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Austin M Farrer – wonderful Anglican theologian.
Mary Midgley – incisive, no-nonsense philosopher.
R G Collingwood – intriguing philosopher.
the Gifford lectures – such a dazzling assembly of religious and scientific reflection.
Gilbert Highet – what a lovely, and thoughtful, writer.
A J Gossip – my favourite published preacher.
James S Stewart – author(?) of the greatest printed sermon I’ve read, The Wind of the Spirit.
A S Byatt – hooked since Possession.
Donald E. Knuth – legendary Computer scientist, organist and Christian

Im not looking for descriptors like ‘uneasy’, ‘happy’, ‘conflicted’ or any of the emotive tags, I mean the fact that there are truth claims made by each and in each, so what is the nature and status of these claims? This hooks into my larger goal – to think carefully about the unity of knowledge?

I’m old-fashioned enough to believe that knowledge is more than a social construct,or a personal reconstructing of the world. But that leads to asking questions such as “What is knowledge?”, “Is there knowledge in religion, history, art, etc. ?”, “If there is knowledge in these spheres is it the same sort of thing in each and if so how, or are there individual and independent realms of knowledge?”, and “If there are, already, individual realms of knowledge, are new realms possible?”
This is an itch I’ve been scratching on and off since the 1970’s. I’d now like to settle and seriously ponder it – especially in its relevance to another of my 43 things: How are science and the Bible related?