Last year I was invited to present at the Annual Evangelical Philosophical Society Apologetics Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This was a real surprise to me and an honour. Some of the best evangelical Christian scholars in the world presented at this conference; speakers included Alvin Plantinga, William Lane Craig, Paul Copan, Gary Habermas, Mike Licona, […]
Entries Tagged as 'Evangelical Philosophical Society'
We’re Going to San Francisco!
May 10th, 2011 15 Comments
Tags: Apologetics · EPS · Evangelical Philosophical Society · San Francisco · SBL · Society of Biblical Literature
Abraham, Isaac, Virginity, Rape and Child Killing (Another Old Testament Ethics Post)
January 23rd, 2011 89 Comments
Randal Rauser has published a blog post touching on Old Testament ethics called “An update in the wake of Atlanta (plus a bit on rape and child killing)“. His post gives an update on his thoughts following his interaction with Paul Copan, Richard Hess and myself in the Evangelical Philosophical Society’s break-out panel discussion “Is Yahweh […]
Tags: Abraham and Isaac · David Boonin · Don Marquis · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Homicide · John Hare · Michael Tooley · Old Testament Ethics · Paul Copan · Peter Singer · Randal Rauser · Richard Hess · Society of Biblical Literature
The Kiwi Contingent: EPS San Francisco 2011
January 14th, 2011 7 Comments
This November the 2011 National Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society (“EPS”) will be held in San Francisco, CA from November 16th-18th. The plenary speaker this year will be Dr Dallas Willard from the University of Southern California who will be speaking on moral epistemology. Accordingly, a call for papers has been issued for papers focussing […]
Download Matt’s EPS Talk “God and the Genocide of the Canaanites” (& other EPS talks)
December 16th, 2010 10 Comments
In November Matt flew to Marietta, Atlanta, Georgia and delivered a talk entitled “God and the Genocide of the Canaanites” for the Evangelical Philosophical Society’s (“EPS”) annual meeting. Matt’ talk is now available to download over here at the EPS website for the very low price of $1.99 USD. The EPS have made available for […]
Tags: Apologetics · Atlanta · Canaanites · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Genocide
Back from Atlanta
November 27th, 2010 13 Comments
On Wednesday I arrived back in New Zealand after a full-on week in Atlanta. During this time I attended bits of four conferences: The Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), The Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society (EPS), The Evangelical Philosophical Society Apologetics Conference “Set Forth Your Case” and the The Annual Meeting of […]
Tags: Apologetics · Atlanta · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Evangelical Theological Society · Georgia · Set Forth Your Case · Society of Biblical Literature
Georgia on my Mind
November 13th, 2010 13 Comments
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 I was in Tauranga. I had been commuting from Auckland to Tauranga every Monday to attend lectures for the teaching diploma I was studying towards and then on Tuesdays I would deliver lectures for the adjunct position I had at the same institution in Tauranga. I remember that particular Tuesday well […]
Tags: Atlanta · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Georgia · Society of Biblical Literature
“Set Forth Your Case” The Promo Video
October 30th, 2010 5 Comments
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):
Tags: Atlanta · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Georgia · Set Forth Your Case · 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.
