I believe my vocation as a Christian Philosopher and Theologian is to provoke people to wrestle with the existential questions they face regarding themselves and God and to challenge them to take Christian answers to these questions seriously. I was thinking about metaphors for the conversation my vocation requires me to engage in and I […]
Entries from March 9th, 2009
Christian Philosophy as Necromancy
March 9th, 2009 Comments Off on Christian Philosophy as Necromancy
Tags: Philosophy of Religion · Theology
Twitter Updates on David Bain Trial?
March 8th, 2009 6 Comments
MandM have just one thing to say on the David Bain trial: Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Do not expect any commentary or speculation on the trial at MandM until the verdict is in.
Tags: Justice
Matt Speaking Tonight
March 8th, 2009 Comments Off on Matt Speaking Tonight
Just a reminder that Matt is speaking in Auckland on Apologetics tonight.
Tags: Announcements · Events
Three Strikes: Proportion and Protection
March 6th, 2009 12 Comments
The Attorney General has identified an “apparent inconsistency” with the proposed “3 strikes bill” and the New Zealand Bill of Rights. This inconsistency is around whether the punishment inflicted by the 3rd strike would be “disproportionately severe.” There have been various reactions to this; the most extreme I have heard came from the bill’s proponent […]
Tags: Jurisprudence · Justice
Madeleine Playing in the Sandpit
March 3rd, 2009 3 Comments
There is a great exchange on KiwiBlog in the comments section here where Madeleine takes to task some of the other commenters on biblical interpretation. Her ability to render the arguments to stupidity with ease and a nice dose of dry humour thrown in is very amusing and worth a look. She has a gift. […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Hermeneutics · Humour
An Eye for an Eye and Turning the Other Cheek
March 3rd, 2009 11 Comments
In The Autonomy of Ethics David Brink complains that “tradition and scripture may speak but in conflicting ways”;[1] in a endnote he cites a single example, Inconsistency is at stake, for example, when we juxtapose the Old Testament doctrine of an “eye for an eye” (Exodus 21:23, 24; Leviticus 24:19, 20; and Deuteronomy 19:21) and […]
Tags: David Brink · David Daube · eye for an eye · Lex Talionis · turn the other cheek
Christian Blog Rankings Feb 09 – HalfDone
March 2nd, 2009 6 Comments
Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on HalfDone’s NZ blog stats for February; these stats are used in the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for February 09: NZ Conservative 10 Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 12 MandM 26 Keeping Stock 28 Samuel Dennis 30 The […]
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.
