At 7.15pm New Zealand time today I will depart New Zealand for Baltimore, Maryland, USA. I am going for a week where I will give 3 talks on the following topics: Feticide: “Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criterion: A Critique” to the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society God and Morality: “Divine Commands and Biblical […]
Entries from November 18th, 2013
Leaving on a Jet Plane
November 18th, 2013 1 Comment
Tags: Baltimore · EPS Apologetics Conference · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Evangelical Theological Society
Matt to speak at the EPS Apologetics Conference in Baltimore on Morality and God’s Commands
November 12th, 2013 Comments Off on Matt to speak at the EPS Apologetics Conference in Baltimore on Morality and God’s Commands
This blog’s Matthew Flannagan has been invited to speak at the 12th Annual Apologetics Conference of the Evangelical Philosophical Society in Baltimore, USA. The theme of this year’s conference is Reasonable Faith in an Uncertain World. Matt’s talk is titled “Morality and God’s Commands: Answering Common Objections.” The blurb for Matt’s talk is as follows: “It is […]
Tags: Apologetics · Baltimore · Divine Command Theory · EPS Apologetics Conference · God and Morality
Is a Divine Command Theory Psychotic? Sam Harris on Divine Commands Part III
November 5th, 2013 2 Comments
In Sam Harris on Divine Commands Part I I criticised Harris’ characterisation of divine command meta-ethics. I refuted Harris’ contention a divine command theory is pscyopathic in Is a Divine Command Theory Pscyopathic? Sam Harris on Divine Commands: Part II. In this last post in this series, I will address Harris’s contention that a divine command theory reflects […]
Tags: Debates · Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural? · Religion and Violence · Sam Harris · William Lane Craig
Matt Nominated for Evangelical Philosophical Society Executive
November 1st, 2013 Comments Off on Matt Nominated for Evangelical Philosophical Society Executive
I am pleased to announce that this blog’s Matthew Flannagan has been nominated as one of the candidates for the three vacant executive committee positions for the 2013 Executive Committee of the Evangelical Philosophical Society (EPS). Matt is the only New Zealander to have been nominated. If you are a member of the EPS please make […]
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.
Cultural Priorities?
November 14th, 2013 1 Comment
The New Zealand herald reports that New Zealand teenagers Ella Yelich-O’Connor (aka Lorde) and Lydia Ko have made the top two spots in Time Magazine’s Most Influential Teenagers of 2013 list. The New Zealand media have been reporting this story over and over, celebrating the wonderful achievements of our very own Lorde and Ko. I am sorry to break it […]
Tags: Kardashians · Lorde · Time Magazine