By: Jason|08 October, 2011|Categories: Ethics|Tags: Divine Command Theory . Glenn Pettigrove . God . John Hare . Mark Murphy . metaethics . theism
Earlier this year, we were involved in hosting a panel discussion on the relationship between religion and morality. The video is now up on YouTube: Moderated by Dr Matthew Flannagan, the panel included Prof John Hare from Yale Divinity School, Prof Mark Murphy from Georgetown University, and Dr Glenn Pettigrove from the University of Auckland. Each speaker addressed a different…
Read more »By: Jason|21 September, 2011|Categories: Video|Tags: God . J P Moreland . nature of God
Robert Lawrence Kuhn talks to Christian philosopher J.P. Moreland about the nature of God’s perfection and how concepts such as moral courage, joy, personal growth and enrichment, etc, might apply to a perfect being. The PBS documentary series Closer to Truth is one of the best resources available for interviews with top scholars on God, the universe, religion, and the…
Read more »By: Jason|27 August, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: character of God . God . God's attributes . holiness of God . r.c. sproul . Video
R. C. Sproul’s 1985 book The Holiness of God is considered a modern classic on the topic of God’s character. Even today, Sproul’s thoughts on holiness contain important insights into a subject that can often seem distant and hard to comprehend. While no attribute of God can be neglected without cost, the Biblical portrait of God and redemptive history are…
Read more »By: Jason|24 August, 2011|Categories: Quotes|Tags: David Wells . evangelical . God . Truth
–David Wells, God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams (page 30).
Read more »By: Jason|06 August, 2011|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: God . metaethics . morality
Uncommon Descent has posted a great response to Jerry Coyne’s recent opinion piece at USA Today, defending the supernatural foundations of morality. [HT: MandM]
Read more »By: Bnonn|05 May, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: benevolence . common grace . God . hate . love . omnibenevolence . sin . sinners
A response to Stuart’s assertion that God’s wrath and hatred is exclusively reserved for sins, rather than sinners.
Read more »By: Jason|01 April, 2011|Categories: About . Video|Tags: debate . evidence for God . God . Lawrence Krauss . theism . william lane craig
If you missed the debate yesterday between William Lane Craig and Lawrence Krauss on the topic “Is there Evidence for God?”, the media from the event is now available. Video: visit the official debate website here (it has also been uploaded to YouTube). Audio: download it here from Apologetics315. Timothy and Michael live-blogged the event, and their post presents a…
Read more »By: Jason|17 March, 2011|Categories: Books|Tags: God . Matt Flannagan . Old Testament ethics . Paul Copan
Matt has posted his review of Paul Copan’s new book Is God a Moral Monster?: “Overall, Paul Copan’s Is God a Moral Monster? is a must read for anyone interested in Old Testament ethics. It brings together important material that is otherwise scattered and demonstrates how this material responds to a line of moral criticism that has, by and large, been…
Read more »“I used to think that wrath was unworthy of God. Isn’t God love? Shouldn’t divine love be beyond wrath? God is love, and God loves every person and every creature. That’s exactly why God is wrathful against some of them. My last resistance to the idea of God’s wrath was a casualty of the war in the former Yugoslavia, the…
Read more »Don Carson discusses the doctrine of hell and whether it is incompatible with a God of love.
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: Jason|02 October, 2010|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Big Bang . cosmology . Edgar Andrews . God . origin of the universe . science . Stephen Hawking
Professor Edgar Andrews reviews the best-selling book by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow.
Read more »By: Stuart|20 September, 2010|Categories: Debates|Tags: atheism . Bible . Christianity . Conquest of Canaan . debate . Divine Command Theory . Ethics . God . matthew flannagan . morality . Raymond Bradley . theism
Footage of the debate between Raymond Bradley and Matt Flannagan.
Read more »By: Jason|07 August, 2010|Categories: About|Tags: debate . God . goodness of God . Hell . Hermeneutics . literalism . Matt Flannagan . metaethics . Ray Bradley
Audio from the recent debate at Auckland University between atheist and former Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Dr Bradley, and blogger and Christian philosopher, Matt Flannagan.
Read more »By: Stuart|27 April, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: agnosticism . Argument . atheism . christopher hitchens . debate . God . presumption of atheism . Reason . Reasonable Faith . Reggie Finlay . theism
Atheism has traditionally been defined as the belief that God does not exist. In recent years there has re-defining of the term to be merely a “psychological state of being without a belief in God.” Has the so-called Atheist really escaped the need to make arguments to justify their position?
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