Here is the promo video, featuring William Lane Craig, for the Evangelical Philosophical Society’s “Set Forth Your Case” conference (one of the two conferences Matt is speaking at in Atlanta Georgia in 3 weeks):
Entries from October 30th, 2010
“Set Forth Your Case” The Promo Video
October 30th, 2010 5 Comments
Tags: Atlanta · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Georgia · Set Forth Your Case · William Lane Craig
Submit Now for the October Edition of the Biblical Studies Carnival
October 25th, 2010 1 Comment
The final call for posts for the October Edition of the Biblical Studies Carnival has gone out. You can submit your nominations by email or by commenting on the original call post at ξἐνος. The September Edition is here in case you want to take squiz and check out what it’s all about. There is apparently still room for […]
Desperately Seeking Sid
October 24th, 2010 11 Comments
Does anyone have a Sid the Sloth toy from the Ice Age movie series? Sid is our son Noah’s favourite character and his McDonalds Sid toy is his favourite toy. Whilst away at Mt Maunganui this weekend, Sid has vanished. He was last seen flying off the top of the 6 storey apartment building we […]
Tags: Announcement · Family · Sid
Moderation
October 19th, 2010 9 Comments
Apologies everyone, it has become necessary to turn comment moderation on. There is a limit to how much time we want to spend removing off-topic, sexually loaded and personally abusive comments left by school-boys each day. We will try to clear and release comments a few times a day. I am working through my Certificate […]
Tags: Announcements
God, Morality and Abhorrent Commands: Part II Robert Adams
October 19th, 2010 7 Comments
In this three-part series I will look at some different ways of adjudicating conflicts between apparent divine commands and moral beliefs. I started with Immanuel Kant, now I will look at Robert Adams’ position. In “God, Morality and Abhorrent Commands: Part I Kant” I mentioned Phillip Quinn’s observation that theists can face a particular dilemma, […]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · James Rissler · Kant · Philip Quinn · Raymond Bradley · Religious History · Robert Adams · Selection
God, Morality and Abhorrent Commands: Part I Kant
October 13th, 2010 185 Comments
In this three-part series I will look at some different ways of adjudicating conflicts between apparent divine commands and moral beliefs starting with Immanuel Kant. In “Commonsense Atheism and the Canaanite Massacre” I addressed a question put to me by Luke from Commonsense Atheism, “If Matt did think these events happened literally as described in the […]
Tags: Canaanites · Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · Kant · Luke Muehlhauser · Old Testament Ethics · Philip Quinn · Religious History · Robert Adams
Podcasts on Christian Physicalism and The Probability of Christianity
October 10th, 2010 9 Comments
Matt and I have been listening to podcasts in the evening lately. These two, featuring two of our friends, who are both philosophers and bloggers, are really worth a listen. Glenn on Physicalism Glenn Peoples, of Say Hello to my Little Friend: The Beretta Blog and Podcast, recently spoke at the University of Oxford at the annual conference […]
Tags: Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot · Fine-Tuning · Glenn Peoples · John Haldane · Luke Muehlhauser · Lydia McGrew · Physicalism · Probability of the Resurrection · Unbelievable?
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
