This is a talk I gave to the New Zealand Association of Philosophy Teachers annual conference at St Cutherberts College in September this year. Several people have asked me to make this talk available. I have broken my talk up into four parts. Part One introduces what philosophy of religion. In part two I will outline two […]
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Contemporary Philosophy of Religion and NCEA Religious Studies: Part two
October 19th, 2017 Comments Off on Contemporary Philosophy of Religion and NCEA Religious Studies: Part two
Tags: Antony Flew · Bertrand Russell · Evidentialism · John Mackie · Verificationism · William Clifford
Contra Mundum: God, Proof and Faith
October 1st, 2009 11 Comments
Since the 17th century one of the most common sceptical objections to the Christian faith is the claim that belief in God is irrational because his existence has never been successfully proven. For centuries theologians and philosophers have proposed a range of arguments for the existence of God; sceptics not only contend every one of […]
Tags: Antony Flew · Contra Mundum · Faith and Reason · Investigate Magazine · John Mackie · Kai Neilsen · Roy Clouser
Antony Flew v William Lane Craig debate “Does God Exist?”
April 26th, 2009 3 Comments
In 1948 Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston debated the existance of God on the BBC radio. That debate was considered the definitive debate of that generation. Fifty years later, to commemorate this debate, a debate re-examining the arguments for and against the existence of God was arranged between William Lane Craig and Antony Flew before […]
Tags: Antony Flew · Debates · Philosophy of Religion · William Lane Craig
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.
