Matt preaches most Sundays at Takanini Community Church. Earlier in they year he did a series on the Sermon on the Mount. We published Matthew Flannagan on The Sermon on the Mount Part 1 (MP3) at the time but then we never got around to publishing Part 2. So now, download and listen to the MP3 of Matt preaching on The […]
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Matthew Flannagan on The Sermon on the Mount Part 2 (MP3)
August 14th, 2012 Comments Off on Matthew Flannagan on The Sermon on the Mount Part 2 (MP3)
Tags: MP3 · Podcast · Preaching · Sermon on the Mount · Takanini Community Church
Published: “Feticide, the Masoretic Text, and the Septuagint” in The Westminster Theological Journal
July 19th, 2012 11 Comments
Matt’s article “Feticide, the Masoretic Text, and the Septuagint” is now available in Vol 74, No. 1 – Spring 2012 of The Westminster Theological Journal. An abstract of “Feticide, the Masoretic Text, and the Septuagint” follows: A long Christian tradition of moral reflection on feticide interprets feticide, the killing of a formed conceptus, as a violation of God’s law […]
Tags: Feticide · Masoretic Text · Septuagint · The Westminster Theological Journal
Contra Mundum: Dawkins and Secular Hypocrisy
July 7th, 2012 105 Comments
When I was a non-Christian I was forever hearing about how Christians are hypocrites. When I converted to Christianity at 17, one thing that struck me is how often these charges were often a case of the pot calling the kettle black. While there is undoubtedly some hypocrisy within the church, it is also pervasive […]
Tags: Contra Mundum · Investigate Magazine · Kirk Cameron · Peter Singer · Richard Dawkins · Secularism · William Lane Craig
Madeleine and Matt to speak on “Being Good: Christian Virtues for Everyday Life” at the 2012 Evangelical Philosophical Society Meeting in Milwaukee
June 23rd, 2012 5 Comments
I have had to revise my earlier statements about not going to the November 2012 academic conferences in Milwaukee on the grounds that when you are personally invited to participate in a panel discussion by Doug Geivett and Mike Austin at the Evangelical Philosophical Society (“EPS”) you do not say no 🙂 (If I said […]
Tags: Being Good: Christian Virtues for Everyday Life · Doug Geivett · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Mike Austin · Milwaukee
Matt to speak on Singer and Infanticide at 2012 Evangelical Philosophical Society Meeting in Milwaukee
June 18th, 2012 13 Comments
Every November there is about a two week period in America where a number of professional academic conferences are held where the best of the best in the field gather. For the last two years Matt has been either accepted or invited to speak at them (I was accepted to speak at them last year […]
Tags: Evangelical Philosophical Society · Infanticide · Milwaukee · Peter Singer
Why Defamatory Speech is not Free Speech
May 27th, 2012 10 Comments
The following argument as to why a remedy requiring the removal of defamatory speech from a publication was not a violation of the right to free speech is representative of one I have previously put before the court: The right to Freedom of Expression is protected by s14 of the Bill of Rights Act 1990 […]
Tags: Defamation · Freedom of Expression · Freedom of Speech · New Zealand Bill of Rights Act · Rights and Freedoms
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.
