By: Jason|25 December, 2010|Categories: Thinking Matters|Tags: Christmas . gospel . Jesus Christ
Merry Christmas from all of us at Thinking Matters!
Read more »By: Jason|22 December, 2010|Categories: Quotes|Tags: Christmas . incarnation . justice . physical . Redemption . spiritual . Tim Keller
A quote from Tim Keller about how Christmas and the incarnation reveal God’s heart for both the physical and the spiritual.
Read more »By: Jason|21 December, 2010|Categories: About . Video|Tags: About . Apologetics conference . Chris Wright . Christmas . greg koukl . Jesus . Jesus Christ . Peter Kreeft . Philip Yancey . rick warren . saddleback church
Media from the recent apologetics conference hosted at Rick Warren’s church on the topic: “Who is Jesus?”.
Read more »By: Jason|20 December, 2010|Categories: Quotes|Tags: Christmas . gospel . J I Packer . Jesus Christ . second man . the Incarnation . Word became flesh
As we count the days down to Christmas, here are some thoughts from J.I. Packer about the greatest mystery of the Christmas story: the Incarnation.
Read more »By: Stuart|19 December, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Religion . Theology|Tags: Christopher Southgate . defence . Dostoevesky . problem of evil . Theodicy
In the conclusion to his series on the Problem of Evil, Stuart considers the emotional force of pain, suffering, predation and extinction experienced by the animal kingdom on the presumption of evolution in Christopher Southgate’s theodicy, and possible strategies for an appropriate defense.
Read more »By: Stuart|18 December, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Religion . Theology|Tags: Christopher Southgate . Michael Lloyd . omnibenevolence . omnipotence . problem of evil . Theodicy
Christopher Southgate, author of The Groaning of Creation, denies a cosmic fall on the grounds that pain and predation are instrumental in the Darwinian process for producing values, such as consciousness, rationality and the “range, beauty, complexity, and diversity of creatures the Earth has produced.” He asserts that this was the “only way” that God could have achieved this. Stuart argues that this is incoherent if God is omnipotent, and offer a preferable argument that preserves God’s omnipotence.
Read more »A round-up of news, articles and other items of interest on the internet, from Plantinga to Narnia to ancient Greek computers.
Read more »By: Stuart|16 December, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Religion . Theology|Tags: Alexander Pruss . Christopher Southgate . evolution . kairological . Kenneth Miller . Michael Murray . predation . problem of evil . Theodicy . william Dembski
In Part Two of this series on the Problem of Evil, Stuart looks at the theodicies of Christopher Southgate and William Dembski that take into account animal suffering in an evolutionary history as a part of the problem of evil, and in doing so develop a framework for his own theodicy.
Read more »By: Stuart|13 December, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: David Hume . evolution . External Problem of Evil . Internal Problem of Evil . Logical Problem of Evil . Paul Draper . Probabilistic Problem of Evil . problem of evil . Theodicy . william lane craig
The task of reconciling the evil in this world with the goodness of God and his creation belongs to a branch of Christian theology called Theodicy. This task has been exacerbated in the past century and half by evolutionary theory that makes us acutely aware of the long-ages past filled with animal suffering. Developing a theodicy is of particular interest to the Christian theologian who seeks to make Christianity credible in the mental environment and requires the analytical tools of the Philosophy of Religion.
Read more »By: Jason|12 December, 2010|Categories: News|Tags: atonement . deaths . doctrine of Scripture . Evangelical Theological Society . inerrancy . J I Packer . Roger Nicole . theologians . Theology
Evangelical scholar and reformed theologian Roger Nicole passed away yesterday at the age of 95.
Read more »The EPS website has released all of the great teaching from their popular apologetics conferences.
Read more »By: Jason|08 December, 2010|Categories: Books|Tags: Bradley Green . God . intellectual life . intellectualism . John Piper . life of the mind . love of God . renewed mind . the mind . theology of thinking . worship
Crossway has just published two helpful new books on the place of the mind in the life of the Christian and how believers should think about thinking.
Read more »By: Jason|01 December, 2010|Categories: Quotes|Tags: D. A. Carson . don carson . God . hate . holiness . holiness of God . love . omnibenevolence . rebels . sin . sinners . wrath
Don Carson, Research Professor of the New Testament, discusses the popular claim that God hates the sin but loves the sinner.
Read more »By: Stuart|01 December, 2010|Categories: Books . Films|Tags: Harry Potter . Holly . imago dei . J. K. Rowling . John Granger . Phoenix . The Holly and the Ivy . Travis Prinzi . Wandlore
Here I look at another reason why Christians can appreciate Harry Potter: the symbolic meaning of Harry’s wand and what it means to be truly human.
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