Yesterday, I was informed that the book Problems in Value Theory An Introduction to Contemporary Debates has finally been published. The book is now available both on amazon on Bloomsbury’s website. Chapter 3 of this book “Does Morality Depend on God?” is co-authored by myself and Graham Oppy (Monash University). Both Graham and I each wrote […]
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Problems in Value Theory An Introduction to Contemporary Debates: My Chapter with Graham Oppy is finally published
February 10th, 2020 Comments Off on Problems in Value Theory An Introduction to Contemporary Debates: My Chapter with Graham Oppy is finally published
Tags: Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · Graham Oppy
Matthew Flannagan (MandM) and Jason Thibodeau (Secular Outpost) Debate God and Morality
September 24th, 2018 4 Comments
Yesterday, I had a long and enjoyable public discussion with Jason Thibodeau on the topic of The Euthyphro dilemma. Jason is a writer for the Secular Outpost and teaches philosophy at Cypress college in California. He also is the author of a recent article entitled “God’s Love is Irrelevant to the Euthyphro Problem” published in Sophia […]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Euthyphro Dilemma · Jason Thibodeau
Divine Commands Post 9/11
September 12th, 2011 43 Comments
The night of September 11, 2001, was a night we did not get much sleep in. By 4am September 12 (New Zealand time) our two-week old son and 14 month old daughter had woken us twice already. Frustratingly, I awoke again sometime after 4am to a different noise coming from the lounge; it turned out […]
Tags: 9/11 · Divine Command Theory · Osama Bin Laden · Raymond Bradley · Robert Adams · Terrorism
MandM and Friends UPDATED
January 3rd, 2011 16 Comments
Recently we placed an advertisement on Facebook for contributors to MandM. We were looking for people with some training in analytic philosophy who are careful, articulate and interesting writers who can contribute to MandM in a complementary style to ours. Those we have chosen to add to our team should bring some variety to our […]
Tags: André Z · Andrew · Machine Philosophy
And the Winners of the Best Biblical Blog Post are…
October 8th, 2010 10 Comments
The winner of the best blog post from a biblical blogger has been announced and it is a clean-sweep for the kiwis (even the nominees were all kiwis!): First Place: Contra Mundum: The Flat-Earth Myth – by Matthew Flannagan Nominated by (in order of nominations received): Madeleine Flannagan Phil Middlemiss Ropata Second Place: John Milbank’s Atavistic […]
Tags: Blogging Contests · Eisenbrauns
Vote for MandM
October 1st, 2010 10 Comments
Nominations have now closed in the search for the best blog post from a biblical blogger. Of the 9 final entries, MandM blog posts made up 4 (see entries: 1, 2, 3 and 7). The entries are: Contra Mundum: The Flat-Earth Myth Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part I Sunday Study: Joshua and the Genocide […]
Tags: Blogging Contests · Eisenbrauns
Free eBook “Is Christianity True?”
August 28th, 2010 6 Comments
Not so long ago Apologetics 315 ran an essay series on the topic Is Christianity True? Twenty-three apologist bloggers contributed, Matt’s essay “Showing Christianity is True” was selected to be the concluding essay in the series, before Brian Auten’s conclusion. At the time, an audio version of each essay was created and the series was turned into […]
Tags: Aaron Brake · Amy Hall · Anthony Horvath · Apologetics · Apologetics 315 · Bob Perry · Brian Auten · Brian Colon · Chad Gross · Chris Reese · eBook · Glenn Hendrickson · James Patrick Holding · Jim Wallace · Kyle Deming · Like Nix · Marcus McElhaney · Mariano Grinbank · Paul D Adams · Peter Grice · Podcast · Richard Gerhardt · Shelby Cade · Stephen Bedard · Tawa Anderson · Vocab Malone · Wes Widner
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.
