Thanks go to Matthew Flannagan for pointing me in the direction of this response to the problem. A while back Professor Randal Rauser issued a blog entitled “Calvinism and the Arbitrary Camp Director” in which he criticised the Calvinist understanding of election. For those of you who are unaware of the Calvinistic understanding of election, […]
Entries Tagged as 'Ethics'
Randal Rauser’s Mistake: A Defense of Calvin’s Doctrine of Election
November 12th, 2011 77 Comments
Tags: Arminianism · Calvinism · Circular Reasoning · Election · Ethics · Evangelical Christianity · Philosophical Theology · Randal Rauser · Salvation · Soteriology · Supererogation · Systematic theology · Theology
Abortion and the Morality of Feticide: Part II
February 16th, 2011 155 Comments
In my last post, Abortion and the Morality of Feticide: Part I, I briefly sketched an argument against feticide, [1] It is wrong to kill a human being without justification; [2] A fetus is a human being; [3] In the case of feticide (at least in the majority of cases) insufficient or no justification is forthcoming. […]
Tags: Abortion · David Boonin · David Oderberg · Ethics · Ethics and Medicine · Feticide · John Locke · Michael Tooley · Peter Singer · Susan Sherwin
Abortion and the Morality of Feticide: Part I
February 10th, 2011 168 Comments
Is it morally permissible to commit feticide? The abortion debate swirls around this question, a lot of rhetoric, emotion and anger gets spent on debating this question or avoiding it. In this series I will examine this question. First I will sketch an argument against feticide: the killing of a fetus. Then I will examine […]
Tags: Abortion · Backstreet Abortion · Ethics · Ethics and Medicine · Feticide · Francis Beckwith · Peter Kreeft · Zoe During
Pro Life Tour: Hear Jill Stanek, Bryan Kemper, Glenn Peoples, Brendan Malone and Matthew Flannagan
January 31st, 2011 305 Comments
Student group Pro-Life New Zealand brought have popular pro-life speakers Jill Stanek and Bryan Kemper out from the US for a nationwide tour of New Zealand. Pro Life Tour 2011 31 Jan Wellington 1 Feb Palmerston North 2 – 3 Feb Christchurch 4 Feb Dunedin 5 Feb Auckland 7 Feb Hamilton Most centres will have day workshops […]
Tags: Abortion · Brendan Malone · Bryan Kemper · Ethics · Feticide · Glenn Peoples · Jill Stanek · Pro Life NZ
Contra Mundum: The Judgmental Jesus
January 29th, 2010 22 Comments
Few things are thought to be more morally pernicious than the practice of judging others. Sometimes this is given a theological spin with people citing the Sermon on the Mount “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure […]
Tags: Contra Mundum · Ethics · Hermeneutics · Investigate Magazine · Judging
Auckland STAANZ Conference: Eschatology and Pneumatology UPDATED
November 18th, 2009 10 Comments
The Systematic Theology Association in Aotearoa New Zealand (STAANZ ) are this week holding a conference in Auckland focusing on eschatology and pneumatology. What: STAANZ Conference on Eschatology and Pneumatology When: Thursday 19 November – Friday 20 November 9:00am-5:30 pm Where: Ponsonby Baptist Church, 43 Jervois Rd, Auckland Cost: $15 Pre-conference prayer will be held […]
Tags: Eschatology · Ethics · Feticide · Kenneth Einar Himma · Pneumatology · STAANZ · Theology
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.
Contra Mundum: After Birth Abortion
April 5th, 2012 4 Comments
“What we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn baby) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.” These words, published in the prestigious “Journal of Medical Ethics” by ethicists Dr Francesca Minerva and Dr Alberto Giubilini, sparked outrage around the world. After-birth abortion is, of […]
Tags: Abortion · Alberto Giubilini · Contra Mundum · Ethics · Francesca Minerva · Infanticide · Investigate Magazine · Joel Feinberg