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] […]
Entries from January 6th, 2009
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.
