It is with sadness that I have just read that Richard John Neuhaus died on Thursday the 8th of January at age 72. There are various obituaries hereFor those New Zealand readers who won’t know. Neuhaus was a Lutheran turned Catholic priest who wrote and commented extensively on issues of religion and public life. His […]
Entries from January 12th, 2009
On a Common Equivocation
January 12th, 2009 6 Comments
Recently I did a post on relativism and in earlier posts I have defended a divine command theory of ethics against various objections. In the comments section Mark V raised an interesting and thoughtful response. I hope Mark does not mind if I pick up on his points because the themes he raises are well […]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Ethics · God and Morality · James Cornman · Keith Lehrer · Louise Anthony · Mark V · Patrick Nowell Smith · Philosophy of Religion · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong · William Lane Craig
Dissecting a Great White
January 8th, 2009 6 Comments
We took the younger kids to see Madagascar 2 the other day and our youngest, Noah aged 7, loved the bit at the end where the shark came out of the ocean, gave chase snapping its teeth and ultimately fell into a live volcano. When we heard about today’s opportunity to see a dissection of […]
Tags: Home Education
Shadow Report: Top 10 NZ Christian Blogs Dec 08
January 6th, 2009 2 Comments
The following shows how November’s Top 10 NZ Christian Blogs (public discourse) fare on Half Done’s December stats compared to Tumeke’s November stats; [1] NZ Conservative 10 (23) [3] Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later 17 (33) [4] MandM 25 (46) [2] The Briefing Room 27 (31) [9] Put up Thy Sword 46 (98) [5] […]
Some More Thoughts on Religion and Public Life: Robert Audi’s Critique of Wolterstorff
January 6th, 2009 12 Comments
In two earlier posts, I discussed John Rawls’ defence of the contention that theological premises should be bracketed or excluded from public discourse. In particular, I appropriated the criticisms of Rawls’s position made by Nicholas Wolterstorff. In “Wolterstorff on Religion, Politics, and the Liberal State” in Religious Beliefs in the Public Square, Robert Audi argues […]
Tags: John Rawls · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Philosophy of Religion · Religion in Public Life · Robert Audi
Happy New Year
January 6th, 2009 3 Comments
Happy New Year everyone. Sorry we have been rather quiet of late, we have been taking a break. I did put up something on Rawls but no one seems to have bitten so I figured most of you were taking a break too. We have not been away due to Madeleine’s recovery, which is unfortunatly […]
Tags: Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery · New Year
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.
