At last years the conference of the American Academy of Religion I participated in a panel discussion on the topic “Just War as Deterrence Against Terrorism”. The papers from this symposium have now been published in issue 18: 21 of Philosophia Christi The abstract to my article “Thank God for the New Zealand Anti-Terrorist Squad” […]
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Matt to speak at: EPS, ETS, AAR/SBL and EPS Apologetics Meetings in Atlanta, USA this November
October 26th, 2015 Comments Off on Matt to speak at: EPS, ETS, AAR/SBL and EPS Apologetics Meetings in Atlanta, USA this November
Every November the annual meetings/conferences of the Evangelical Philosophical Society (“EPS”), its Apologetics wing (“EPS Apologetics”), the Evangelical Theological Society (“ETS”), the American Academy of Religion (“AAR”) and the Society for Biblical Literature (“SBL”), are held over a 2 week period in the same city, somewhere in America. The meetings/conferences showcase the work of the […]
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Hear Matt speak @ the Auckland Confident Christianity Apologetics Conference
April 14th, 2015 Comments Off on Hear Matt speak @ the Auckland Confident Christianity Apologetics Conference
This ANZAC weekend make sure you check out the Thinking Matters Confident Christianity Apologetics Conference at Northcote Baptist Church. Matt will be speaking along with a number of other great speakers. Full conference schedule here. In brief, from the Thinking Matters’ Facebook Event page: Does God exist? Why is there so much suffering? Is truth relative? Are science and […]
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Talks from Baltimore Available
February 13th, 2014 Comments Off on Talks from Baltimore Available
For those who are interested, the Evangelical Theological Society has put recordings of all the papers presented in Baltimore online for a price of $4 each. My 2 presentations are available here. The talks include the Q&A so during the second presentation Professor Swinburne from Oxford University can be heard offering critical comments on my […]
Tags: Canaanites · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Evangelical Theological Society · Richard Swinburne
Back from Baltimore
February 9th, 2014 1 Comment
The following is a belated report of my recent trip to Baltimore. I began writing the post in December, but Christmas, New Year, the holidays, and various other things got in the way of me finally completing it. On Tuesday 26 November 2013 I flew back to New Zealand having attended the annual conference of the Evangelical […]
Tags: Baltimore · EPS Apologetics Conference · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Evangelical Theological Society
Matt to speak at the 2013 Evangelical Theological Society in Baltimore on Feticide
September 19th, 2013 3 Comments
This blog’s Matthew Flannagan has had his paper “Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criterion: A Critique” accepted for the 65th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (“ETS”). The abstract for Matt’s paper is as follows: Abstract “Defenders of the permissibility of feticide commonly argue that killing an organism is not homicide unless the organism’s brain has […]
Tags: Abortion · Baltimore · David Boonin · ETS · Evangelical Theological Society · Feticide · Sentience
Back from the USA
November 23rd, 2012 23 Comments
Madeleine and I flew back to New Zealand from Milwaukee on Tuesday having both attended the Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, and the Evangelical Philosophical Society’s Apologetics Conference. Prior to that I had spent three weeks based in Charlotte, North Carolina. I will speak about the conferences later in […]
Tags: Cherokee Apologetics Conference · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Evangelical Theological Society · Frank Beckwith · Mary-Jo Sharp · Milwaukee · North Carolina · Paul Copan · Southern Evangelical Seminary Apologetics Conference
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.
