We ponder issues to blog on that we hope you might be interested in but we would love to hear from our readers – what issues do you want to hear out thoughts on for future blogs?
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March 18th, 2009 by
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Did God Really Command Genocide? Coming to Terms with the Justice of God Authors: Paul Copan, Matthew Flannagan
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.
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True Reason: Confronting the Irrationality of the New Atheism Eds: Tom Gilson, Carson Weitnauer
Today's New Atheists proclaim themselves our culture's party of reason. It is a claim they cannot sustain. Reason is the New Atheists' weakness, not their strength and in fact, the Christian faith is a far better place to look for True Reason. Making their case accessible to the first-time inquirer as well as the serious student, this top-flight team of writers presents a sound defense and a strong introduction to the true reason uniquely found in Christianity.
Feat. William Lane Craig, Sean McDowell, John DePoe, Chuck Edwards, Peter Grice, Matthew Flannagan, et al.Buy the paperback version
In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture Eds: Steven B Cowan and Terry L Wilder
The book begins by examining foundational philosophical approaches to the Bible as well as the methodological challenges those philosophies create for interpreting the Bible. It then addresses textual and historical challenges and how to deal with them. Finally it looks at ethical, scientific, and theological challenges demonstrating the Bible's moral integrity in relationship to contemporary moral emphases.Feat. R Douglas Geivett, William A Dembski, Mary Jo Sharp, Darrell L Bock, Paul Copan, Matthew Flannagan, et al.Buy the paperback versionBuy the Kindle version
Virtues in Action: New Essays in Applied Virtue Ethics Ed: Michael W Austin
Many philosophers have considered the strengths and weaknesses of a virtue-centered approach to moral theory. Much less attention has been given to how such an approach bears on issues in applied ethics. The essays in this volume apply a virtue-centered perspective to a variety of contemporary moral issues.Feat. Michael W Austin, Robert K Garcia, Nathan L King, Gregory Bassham, Nancy E Snow, Matthew Flannagan, et al.Buy the hardcover version
Holy War in the Bible: Christian Morality and an Old Testament Problem Eds: Heath A Thomas, Jeremy Evans & Paul Copan
The challenge of a seemingly genocidal God who commands ruthless warfare has bewildered Bible readers for generations. A range of expert contributors engage in a multidisciplinary approach that considers this issue from a variety of perspectives: biblical, ethical, philosophical and theological.Feat. David Lamb, Paul Copan, Murray Rae, Heath Thomas, Stephen B Chapman, Douglas S Earl, Matthew Flannagan, et al.Buy the paperback version
Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics Eds: William Lane Craig & Paul Copan
The nineteen essays here raise classical philosophical questions in fresh ways, address contemporary challenges for the church, and will deepen the thinking of the next generation of apologists. Packed with dynamic topical discussions and informed by the latest scholarship.Feat. J P Moreland, William Lane Craig, Gary R Habermas, Craig Keener, Paul Copan, Matthew Flannagan, et al.Buy the paperback versionBuy the Kindle version
True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenge of Atheism Eds: Tom Gilson, Carson Weitnauer
While New Atheists like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and others proclaim loudly their rationality, clear thinking, and incontrovertible scientific arguments, others are beginning to wonder how genuinely rational they are. Have they proved anything? Have they argued convincingly? Have they pinpointed any real challenges to the credibility of Christian faith?
Feat. William Lane Craig, Sean McDowell, John DePoe, Chuck Edwards, Peter Grice, Matthew Flannagan, et al.Buy the Kindle version
I would like to hear more on why you oppose the Seabed and Foreshore legislation.
Why should the government potentially allow access to the beach denied to all New Zealanders?
I would like you to post on double jeopardy. I realise this is not an NZ preoccupation, but I understand we cannot keep prosecuting people until the jury get the “right” answer.
However there are presumably situations where further information should suggest a retrial of someone previously found innocent.
And I have previously suggested more posts on intellectual property. Does it exist?
I have done a post on double jeopardy: Labour Erodes More Human Rights: The Criminal Procedure Bill I could do another one I suppose.
I have one in the works on the Seabed and Foreshore – just have to get onto it.
As for intellectual property, you are not the only person who has asked for that previously. It is a question I should answer as I intend to make one of my law branches IP given I have some hands on experience from my previous job – the plan was to take IP this semester but it was full too fast so now I will do it next year as my last paper. So yep, happy to look at that.
Madeleine you have lost a lot of weight and you look fantastic. I would like to hear about your journey.
Why the coloseum on your banner? What made you choose that image?
I have some ideas about why you might have but I would love to read a blog about your take on why you chose it.
Being a teacher I am always interested in your views on education in NZ.
Perhaps some Christian topics – thoughts on various parables, kingdom of God
Capital punishment, the growth of Islam in the western world, the effects of leftist ideology in the western world.
Some of these ideas are great; thanks this really helps as you wouldn’t believe how hard it is to come up with new ideas sometimes.
The plan is to come back to this list and go through it for inspiration when we are stuck. Some of the suggestions will be fairly easy for us to write, we already have opinions and some degree of knowledge and have the resources to form a blog post at hand, others we will have to think a lot on and find resources for but I’d say most are do-able.
We have written a bit on Capital Punishment but its all under the tag “death penalty,” – have a look at our labels; we don’t have a capital punishment tag (I should probably rectify that).
I like the idea of the bible study ones, don’t know why we hadn’t thought of that, Matt sure writes enough of them for our study group.
Not sure on the weight one. I have been toying with it as I have seen the search terms people use to find out site and within our site showing interest in that but it’s personal and I am not sure how much I want to go there given how much abuse I used to get over it.
I was just wondering if it would be possible to have more things for girls, there’s not much of a choice.