By: Jason|31 May, 2010|Categories: Media . Video|Tags: Dallas Willard . empirical knowledge . knowledge . metaethics . moral knowledge . morality . Skepticism
In this video from a lecture delivered last month, philosopher Dallas Willard explores whether the moral life can be the subject of knowledge in an age that is skeptical about non-empirical claims.
Read more »By: Jason|28 May, 2010|Categories: Local|Tags: auckland . Bev Norsworthy . Carey College Christian School . Faith . postgraduate . seminar . TSCF . workshop
This Saturday (the 29th of May), the Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship is hosting a seminar in Auckland to consider the issues involved with postgraduate life.
Read more »By: Jason|26 May, 2010|Categories: Practical Engagement|Tags: apologetic methodology . Apologetics . arguments . C. S. Lewis . Chrisitan ethics . discourse . Evangelism . human flourishing . Immanuel Kant . presuppositionalism . sexual ethics . skeptics . Tim Keller . Wendell Berry
Author and pastor, Tim Keller discusses his apologetic approach in talking with skeptics. He argues that in order to gain a hearing for many of our Christian beliefs we should be able to be able to make arguments that appeal to baseline cultural beliefs, without invoking explicit religious sources of authority.
Read more »By: Jason|19 May, 2010|Categories: Local|Tags: auckland . Events . John Bishop . new atheism . nicola Hoggard Creegan . theism
On Saturday the 29th of May, TANSA (Theology and the Natural Sciences in Aotearoa), in conjunction with the Vaughan Park Anglican Retreat Centre, will be holding a seminar on God and the new wave of atheism.
Read more »By: Jason|17 May, 2010|Categories: About|Tags: absolute truth . Douglas Groothius . Objective . objective morality . relativism . Truth
In this sermon at Castle Pines Community Church, Douglas Groothius offers a useful overview of religious and moral relativism. He talks about Jesus as a thinker and a model for us in communicating truth and approaching intellectual problems.
Read more »By: Jason|15 May, 2010|Categories: Media|Tags: death of Jesus Christ . don carson . Resurrection
Don Carson discusses the heart of Christianity – the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Read more »By: Stuart|15 May, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: Argument . Epistemology . evidence . justification . logical argument . Philosophy of Science . verificationialism . Worldview
Stuart looks at the claim that logical arguments are not evidence and unpacks the evidential value of philosophical arguments in our investigation of reality.
Read more »By: Jason|13 May, 2010|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Creation . Edgar Andrews . Genesis . moral argument . new atheists . science . theory of everything . Who Made God?
Michael Drake reviews Edgar Andrews’ new book about science and the existence of God.
Read more »By: Jason|12 May, 2010|Categories: About|Tags: arguments . Faith . God's existence . Kenneth Samples . Reason . Theistic Arguments
Kenneth Samples, apologist at Reasons to Believe, offers a cumulative case for the existence of God and for the reasonableness of Christian faith.
Read more »By: Jason|06 May, 2010|Categories: Quotes|Tags: Easter . eschatology . evil . gospel . N.T. Wright . problem of evil . Resurrection . Tom Wright
Tom Wright talks about the importance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ for the message of Christianity.
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