L Philip Barnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 1430561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Philip Barnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | L Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnes |
| SIGNATURE | BARNES L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8851-1416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Politics of Inflation
Inflation returned to the foreground of political economies worldwide after 2019, after 30 years of relative quiescence. Inflation remains unpopular—including among those who are hurt by the policies currently used to reduce it—and damaging for established regimes and incumbent governments. But whether the explanations and tools developed to contain price increases after the 1970s are appropriate for twenty-first century inflation is less clear. …
Religion, values and ethics: Transformational religious education in Wales
A process of reform of Welsh education was initiated in 2015 by a curriculum review led by Professor Graham Donaldson, against the background of mounting evidence of academic underachievement and low levels of pupil self-esteem under successive (Welsh) Labour governments. Despite Professor Donaldson having little to say about religious education, the government embarked on an ambitious and controversial programme of reform. The aim of this articl…
Religion and Worldviews: The Triumph of the Secular in Religious Education
Religious education for free and equal citizens
The aim of this article is to interact critically with Matthew Clayton and David Stevens’s recent critique of non-confessional religious education, constituted as a separate, compulsory subject in the school curriculum. Three different critical arguments are considered: the contention that religious education is an unsuitable vehicle for fostering toleration and mutual understanding; their framing and application of an ‘acceptability requirement’…
The theology of education and religious education in schools
In a recent article in Theology (Vol. 125, no. 1, pp. 3–11), Professors Trevor Cooling and Robert A. Bowie discussed the Final Report of the Commission on Religious Education (CoRE) and identified two ways in which Christian theology can become a ‘conversation partner’ with a worldview approach to religious education: first, through theological interaction with the concept of worldview; and second, by showing the potential of biblical hermeneutic…
The Commission on Religious Education, Worldviews and the Future of Religious Education
This article considers the proposals of the final report of the Commission on Religious Education (CoRE 2018) and its controversial conclusion that the law should require religious education to include teaching about non-religious worldviews alongside religions, presumably in equal measure. Attention is given both to Trevor Cooling’s recent defence of CoRE’s proposals against already expressed criticisms and to additional criticisms, that of the …
Cult books revisited: John Hick's God and the Universe of Faiths
This article provides an account of John Hick's first expression of his pluralist theology of religions as he presented it in God and the Universe of Faiths (1973). Attention is focused on the reasons that he believes justify regarding the different religions as independent sources of revelation and salvation and on their assessment
Public Theology or Religious Studies?
The aim of this paper is to explore the relevance and relationship of both theology and religious studies to the subject of religious education in schools. The perspective that is brought to this discussion is one derived from the history of British religious education and critical reflection upon that history. This paper is structured in the following way: A brief review of the transition from confessional to non-confessional religious education…
A Critical Response to Heidi C. Giannini
In a recent article in this journal, Heidi Giannini (2017) has argued that the Christian doctrines of love and of hope require Christians to endorse universal, unconditional forgiveness, understood in terms of the renunciation of “negative reactive attitudes.” She also addresses criticisms of this interpretation. It is argued that Giannini has failed to provide a Christian justification for universal, unconditional forgiveness. Part of the proble…
Humanism, religious education and the former Archbishop of Canterbury
The aim of this article is to consider and assess the recent call by a number of prominent churchmen and religious leaders, including the former Archbishop, Lord Williams, for a study of Humanism to be incorporated into religious education, as recommended by the 2013 non-statutory Curriculum Framework for Religious Education. The signatories appeal to the concept of fairness and advocate the inclusion of Humanism on this basis. While misgivings a…
Humanism, non-religious worldviews and the future of Religious Education
This article considers whether non-religious worldviews ought to be included in the curriculum content of religious education (RE). While the immediate context is that of the campaigns of the Religious Education Council for England and Wales (REC) and the British Humanist Association (BHA) to extend the content of RE to include non-religious worldviews, the arguments reviewed have a wider application to RE elsewhere. A short account is provided o…
What has morality to do with religious education
The aim of this paper is to provide a positive case for increasing the role and importance of religious morality within the subject of religious education in British schools. The argument is structured in the following way. First, attention is given to the diminished role accorded to moral education within religious education that followed the transition from confessional to non-confessional, phenomenological religious education and the reasons f…
An alternative reading of modern religious education in England and Wales
This paper challenges the overly positive image of the contribution made by religious education in England and Wales to the attainment of liberal educational aims that was recently presented in this journal, in the context of a review symposium on a festschrift celebrating the work and achievements of the influential British religious educator, Professor John Hull. An alternative reading is pursued that provides a more accurate and fair interpret…
The 2007 Birmingham Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education: A new direction for statutory religious education in England and Wales
The aim of this article is to introduce and summarise the main feature of the new Birmingham City Council Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education (2007 Birmingham City Council (BCC). 2007. Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education, Birmingham: City Council. [Google Scholar]), consider the relevance of its commitments and conclusions to ongoing debates within British religious education, and, finally, offer some kind of provisional assessment of its…
Symposium on the influence of secularisation on the identity of religious colleges and universities
Symposium on religion in public life
Prayer and psychological health: A study among sixth-form pupils attending Catholic and Protestant schools in Northern Ireland
Eysenck's dimensional model of personality includes two indicators of psychological health, defined as neuroticism and psychoticism. In order to examine the association between psychological health and prayer, two samples of sixth-form pupils in Northern Ireland (16- to 18-year-olds) attending Catholic (N = 1246) and Protestant (N = 1060) schools completed the abbreviated Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire alongside a simple measure of pra…
Developing a new post‐liberal paradigm for British religious education
The aim of this paper is to articulate a new ‘post‐liberal’ paradigm for religious education in Britain. As criticisms of British religious education have mounted over the last few decades, it is becoming increasingly obvious that familiar inherited ways of conceptualising the nature and practice of religious education in schools are inappropriate to contemporary educational needs. A new model is required to structure, justify and direct learning…
Michael Hand, Is Religious Education Possible: Continuum, London, 2006, ISBN 0-8264-9150-2 (hbk)
Psychological Health and Attitude Toward Christianity Among Protestant and Catholic Sixth-Form Pupils in Northern Ireland
Religiously Affiliated Schools in Northern Ireland: The Persistence of Denominational Differences in Pupils' Religious And Moral Values
Northern Ireland has been and remains a country deeply divided, and this division is focused by the denominational distinction between Catholics and Protestants. The division is reflected in and supported by separate educational systems for Protestant and Catholic children. Between the late 1960s and early 1990s, John Greer pioneered a series of empirical enquiries concerning the distinctive religious, moral and social cultures of pupils educated…
The Misrepresentation of Religion in Modern British (Religious) Education
The purpose of this paper is to articulate a new perspective on British multi-faith religious education that both complements and, in part, subsumes existing critiques. My argument, while controversial, is straightforward: it is that British religious education has misrepresented the nature of religion in efforts to commend itself as contributing to the social aims of education, as these are typically framed in liberal democratic societies. Conte…
Religion, education and conflict in Northern Ireland
The aim of this article is to re‐evaluate and reaffirm the contribution of the churches and of Christianity to the realization in Northern Ireland schools of legitimate and progressive educational values such as the cultivation of tolerance, moral integrity and civic virtue. Implicit in this is a critique of educational initiatives that seek to undermine the influence of Christianity in schools. There is also discussion of the reasons why the inc…
Was the Northern Ireland Conflict Religious
This article considers the claim that the conflict in Northern Ireland was irreducibly religious. After a brief account of the history of the Northern Ireland conflict, the different arguments and counter arguments that bear on the role of religion in causing and sustaining the conflict are considered. An examination of the relationship of Islam to terrorism and the events of 9/11 provides a comparative perspective that is used both to identify s…
Roman State Religion in the Mirror of Augustan and Late Republican Apologetics†
This chapter secures a hypothesis that in the late Republic and Augustan period, no individual priest of the state religion, coming from the educated class, could carry out his duties with the credulity of an archaic man. Each perceived the discrepancy between the extent of his own spiritual freedom and the world of ideas that he had to reproduce in worship. The state religion for the contemporary Roman was not identical with the entire complex o…
Was the Northern Ireland Conflict Religious
This article considers the claim that the conflict in Northern Ireland was irreducibly religious. After a brief account of the history of the Northern Ireland conflict, the different arguments and counter arguments that bear on the role of religion in causing and sustaining the conflict are considered. An examination of the relationship of Islam to terrorism and the events of 9/11 provides a comparative perspective that is used both to identify s…
The Misrepresentation of Religion in Modern British (Religious) Education
The purpose of this paper is to articulate a new perspective on British multi-faith religious education that both complements and, in part, subsumes existing critiques. My argument, while controversial, is straightforward: it is that British religious education has misrepresented the nature of religion in efforts to commend itself as contributing to the social aims of education, as these are typically framed in liberal democratic societies. Conte…
Ninian Smart and the Phenomenological Approach to Religious Education
This essay reviews and assesses Ninian Smart's contribution to religious education. Attention is given to his account of the nature and purpose of religious education as expressed and developed in a series of works published between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, beginning with The Teacher and Christian Belief (1966) and ending with Schools Council Working Paper 36, Religious Education in the Secondary School (1971), which was produced under…
The Commission on Religious Education, Worldviews and the Future of Religious Education
This article considers the proposals of the final report of the Commission on Religious Education (CoRE 2018) and its controversial conclusion that the law should require religious education to include teaching about non-religious worldviews alongside religions, presumably in equal measure. Attention is given both to Trevor Cooling’s recent defence of CoRE’s proposals against already expressed criticisms and to additional criticisms, that of the …
Psychological Health and Attitude Toward Christianity Among Protestant and Catholic Sixth-Form Pupils in Northern Ireland
Forgiveness, the Moral Law and Education: A Reply to Patricia White
Patricia White has recently attempted to construct an ethically valid notion of forgiveness that will serve educational purposes and contribute to the moral development of pupils in schools. She distinguishes between a strict view that requires repentance before forgiveness, which she rejects, and a relaxed view that does not require repentance, which she endorses. In this reply I defend the strict view of forgiveness against her criticism and ch…
The Contribution of Professor Ninian Smart to Religious Education
(2001). The Contribution of Professor Ninian Smart to Religious Education. Religion: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 317-319
Modern Tragicomedy and the British Tradition
Relativism, Ineffability, and the Appeal to Experience: A Reply to the Myth Makers
Continuity and development in John Hick's theology
Analyse de la facon dont la position theologique de John Hick a change. L'A. tente d'identifier les raisons de ce changement. Il propose ensuite d'evaluer la veritable contribution de Hick a la theologie. La continuite de sa pensee est remarquable et reside dans son epistemologie a l'interieur de laquelle on trouve les racines de son accord avec le pluralisme religieux. Dans le domaine de la christologie, la pensee de Hick s'est modifiee, mais il…
Rudolf Otto and the Limits of Religious Description
In a recent study entitled ‘Numinous Experience and Religious Language’, Dr Leon Schlamm has endorsed Rudolf Otto's well known and much discussed account of the relationship of religious experience to religious language, and then used this position to criticize some highly influential voices in the continuing debate on the precise nature of mystical experience. The aim of this paper, in response to Schlamm, is to question the plausibility of Otto…
Ninian Smart and the Phenomenological Approach to Religious Education
This essay reviews and assesses Ninian Smart's contribution to religious education. Attention is given to his account of the nature and purpose of religious education as expressed and developed in a series of works published between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, beginning with The Teacher and Christian Belief (1966) and ending with Schools Council Working Paper 36, Religious Education in the Secondary School (1971), which was produced under…
The Contribution of Professor Ninian Smart to Religious Education
(2001). The Contribution of Professor Ninian Smart to Religious Education. Religion: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 317-319
World Religions and the Northern Ireland Curriculum
The aim of this article is to assess the arguments for and against the inclusion of a study of world religions within the religious education provision of schools in Northern Ireland. The point of departure for our discussion is the Inter-Faith Forum's recent claim that exclusively Christian content may be in breach of equality and human rights legislation. It is concluded that there should be teaching about world religions but that multi-faith r…
Forgiveness, the Moral Law and Education: A Reply to Patricia White
Patricia White has recently attempted to construct an ethically valid notion of forgiveness that will serve educational purposes and contribute to the moral development of pupils in schools. She distinguishes between a strict view that requires repentance before forgiveness, which she rejects, and a relaxed view that does not require repentance, which she endorses. In this reply I defend the strict view of forgiveness against her criticism and ch…
Roman State Religion in the Mirror of Augustan and Late Republican Apologetics†
This chapter secures a hypothesis that in the late Republic and Augustan period, no individual priest of the state religion, coming from the educated class, could carry out his duties with the credulity of an archaic man. Each perceived the discrepancy between the extent of his own spiritual freedom and the world of ideas that he had to reproduce in worship. The state religion for the contemporary Roman was not identical with the entire complex o…
Was the Northern Ireland Conflict Religious
This article considers the claim that the conflict in Northern Ireland was irreducibly religious. After a brief account of the history of the Northern Ireland conflict, the different arguments and counter arguments that bear on the role of religion in causing and sustaining the conflict are considered. An examination of the relationship of Islam to terrorism and the events of 9/11 provides a comparative perspective that is used both to identify s…
Religion, education and conflict in Northern Ireland
The aim of this article is to re‐evaluate and reaffirm the contribution of the churches and of Christianity to the realization in Northern Ireland schools of legitimate and progressive educational values such as the cultivation of tolerance, moral integrity and civic virtue. Implicit in this is a critique of educational initiatives that seek to undermine the influence of Christianity in schools. There is also discussion of the reasons why the inc…
Religiously Affiliated Schools in Northern Ireland: The Persistence of Denominational Differences in Pupils' Religious And Moral Values
Northern Ireland has been and remains a country deeply divided, and this division is focused by the denominational distinction between Catholics and Protestants. The division is reflected in and supported by separate educational systems for Protestant and Catholic children. Between the late 1960s and early 1990s, John Greer pioneered a series of empirical enquiries concerning the distinctive religious, moral and social cultures of pupils educated…
The Misrepresentation of Religion in Modern British (Religious) Education
The purpose of this paper is to articulate a new perspective on British multi-faith religious education that both complements and, in part, subsumes existing critiques. My argument, while controversial, is straightforward: it is that British religious education has misrepresented the nature of religion in efforts to commend itself as contributing to the social aims of education, as these are typically framed in liberal democratic societies. Conte…
Developing a new post‐liberal paradigm for British religious education
The aim of this paper is to articulate a new ‘post‐liberal’ paradigm for religious education in Britain. As criticisms of British religious education have mounted over the last few decades, it is becoming increasingly obvious that familiar inherited ways of conceptualising the nature and practice of religious education in schools are inappropriate to contemporary educational needs. A new model is required to structure, justify and direct learning…
Michael Hand, Is Religious Education Possible: Continuum, London, 2006, ISBN 0-8264-9150-2 (hbk)
Psychological Health and Attitude Toward Christianity Among Protestant and Catholic Sixth-Form Pupils in Northern Ireland
The 2007 Birmingham Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education: A new direction for statutory religious education in England and Wales
The aim of this article is to introduce and summarise the main feature of the new Birmingham City Council Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education (2007 Birmingham City Council (BCC). 2007. Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education, Birmingham: City Council. [Google Scholar]), consider the relevance of its commitments and conclusions to ongoing debates within British religious education, and, finally, offer some kind of provisional assessment of its…
Symposium on the influence of secularisation on the identity of religious colleges and universities
Symposium on religion in public life
Prayer and psychological health: A study among sixth-form pupils attending Catholic and Protestant schools in Northern Ireland
Eysenck's dimensional model of personality includes two indicators of psychological health, defined as neuroticism and psychoticism. In order to examine the association between psychological health and prayer, two samples of sixth-form pupils in Northern Ireland (16- to 18-year-olds) attending Catholic (N = 1246) and Protestant (N = 1060) schools completed the abbreviated Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire alongside a simple measure of pra…
An alternative reading of modern religious education in England and Wales
This paper challenges the overly positive image of the contribution made by religious education in England and Wales to the attainment of liberal educational aims that was recently presented in this journal, in the context of a review symposium on a festschrift celebrating the work and achievements of the influential British religious educator, Professor John Hull. An alternative reading is pursued that provides a more accurate and fair interpret…
What has morality to do with religious education
The aim of this paper is to provide a positive case for increasing the role and importance of religious morality within the subject of religious education in British schools. The argument is structured in the following way. First, attention is given to the diminished role accorded to moral education within religious education that followed the transition from confessional to non-confessional, phenomenological religious education and the reasons f…
Humanism, non-religious worldviews and the future of Religious Education
This article considers whether non-religious worldviews ought to be included in the curriculum content of religious education (RE). While the immediate context is that of the campaigns of the Religious Education Council for England and Wales (REC) and the British Humanist Association (BHA) to extend the content of RE to include non-religious worldviews, the arguments reviewed have a wider application to RE elsewhere. A short account is provided o…
Humanism, religious education and the former Archbishop of Canterbury
The aim of this article is to consider and assess the recent call by a number of prominent churchmen and religious leaders, including the former Archbishop, Lord Williams, for a study of Humanism to be incorporated into religious education, as recommended by the 2013 non-statutory Curriculum Framework for Religious Education. The signatories appeal to the concept of fairness and advocate the inclusion of Humanism on this basis. While misgivings a…
Public Theology or Religious Studies?
The aim of this paper is to explore the relevance and relationship of both theology and religious studies to the subject of religious education in schools. The perspective that is brought to this discussion is one derived from the history of British religious education and critical reflection upon that history. This paper is structured in the following way: A brief review of the transition from confessional to non-confessional religious education…
Philosophy (25 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Political science (21 works) · Religious Education and Schools (21 works) · Law (17 works) · Epistemology (15 works) · Religious education (14 works) · Religious studies (13 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (12 works) · Pedagogy (11 works)