A regular reader complained over the weekend that MandM has been too quiet of late – not enough posts. I had explained some of the reason for this in a comment, but I will do so here so it is not missed. Matt is away in Tauranga doing his teaching diploma for the next two […]
Entries from February 9th, 2009
Quiet on the MandM Front
February 9th, 2009 Comments Off on Quiet on the MandM Front
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Brink on Dialectical Equilibrium
February 5th, 2009 2 Comments
In my last two posts, I have criticised David Brink’s appeal to scripture in order to argue against the appeal to divine commands in ethics. Brink anticpates the kind of argument I have offered and states, A common theistic response to these interpretative puzzles is to endorse the interpretation of tradition and scripture that yields […]
Tags: David Brink · Ethics · Faith and Reason · God and Morality · Hermeneutics
Christian Blog Rankings for Jan 09 – HalfDone
February 4th, 2009 Comments Off on Christian Blog Rankings for Jan 09 – HalfDone
Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on HalfDone’s NZ blog stats for January; these stats are used in the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for January 09: NZ Conservative 7 Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone)14 Keeping Stock 23 MandM 25 The Briefing Room 27 Samuel […]
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.
