Apologetics 315, which brings together a variety of apologetics resources including audio, debates, podcasts, book reviews and articles profiling the works of the best apologists in the world, has interviewed Matt as part of their Apologist Interviews series. Matt is the first kiwi apologist to be featured in this series and stands alongside such contemporary […]
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Apologetics 315 Interviews Matthew Flannagan on his Contribution to Apologetics
August 23rd, 2010 29 Comments
Tags: Apologetics · Apologetics 315 · Chris Shannon · Craig Hazen · Doug Geivett · Doug Groothius · Faith and Reason · Gary Habermas · Greg Koukl · Interviews · Kenneth Samples · Media · Michael Licona · Paul Copan · Peter Williams · Raymond Bradley · William Lane Craig
Tim McGrew’s Library of Historical Apologetics: Rediscovering Forgotten Defenders of the Faith
August 19th, 2010 16 Comments
Last year Timothy McGrew, Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University (and reader of and occasional commenter on this blog) was kind enough to ship us a hard-drive from the US filled with thousands of old theological works on the historical argument for the truth of Christianity. It is truly a gold-mine of information, which Matt gets himself […]
Tags: Apologetics · Christian History · Craig Hazen · Gary Habermas · Historical Apologetics · Robert Stewart · Theology · Timothy McGrew · William Lane Craig
SBL Annual Meeting: Navigating Old Testament Ethics
July 9th, 2010 2 Comments
Matt has been invited to participate in a panel discussion at the annual Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, which runs 20-23 November 2010. He will join leading Christian academics Paul Copan, Richard Hess and Randal Rauser in a segment entitled “Navigating Old Testament Ethics.” Matt’s contribution to the panel discussion […]
Tags: Apologetics · Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · Paul Copan · Randal Rauser · Richard Hess · Society of Biblical Literature
EPS Apologetics Conference: God and the Genocide of the Canaanites
July 9th, 2010 9 Comments
Matt has been invited to speak at the annual Evangelical Philosophical Society (EPS) Apologetics Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, USA which runs 18-20 November 2010. He will be speaking alongside some big names in contemporary Christian philosophy including Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig. Experience seasoned teaching by Alvin Plantinga, William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, Greg […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Apologetics · Canaanites · Craig Blomberg · Craig Evans · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Frank Beckwith · Gary Habermas · God and Morality · Greg Koukl · Hermeneutics · Mike Licona · Old Testament Ethics · Paul Copan · Randy Newman · War Ethics · William Lane Craig
Showing Christianity is True at Apologetics 315
May 1st, 2010 9 Comments
Brian Auten of Apologetics 315 has run an essay series through the month of April on the topic “Why is Christianity True?” Brian has accepted 23 submissions from various apologetics bloggers from around the world and has each day posted 1 essay in the series along with a podcast of each. At the end of […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Apologetics · Brian Auten · Faith and Reason · William Alston
Video of Matthew Flannagan Speaking on Moral Relativism
August 27th, 2009 5 Comments
Matt spoke at Thinking Matters Auckland on 28 May 2009 on Moral Relativism. A popular view of ethics holds that actions are right or wrong only if a person or a community believes that they are right or wrong, and that it is inappropriate to apply your own standards to others. This position is known […]
Tags: Apologetics · MandM on Video · Thinking Matters
See William Lane Craig and Christopher Hitchens debate: Does God Exist?
July 14th, 2009 3 Comments
You are invited to a Thinking Matters Auckland, God, Morality and Society, DVD screening: What: William Lane Craig v Christopher Hitchens debating Does God Exist? When: Tuesday 21 July – 7:00pm Where: Lecture Room 2, Laidlaw College, 80 Central Park Drive, Henderson, West Auckland Format: DVD followed by discussion. Cost: Free – donations appreciated. If […]
Tags: Apologetics · Events · Thinking Matters
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.
