Last year I gave a paper entitled “Reflections on Annihilationism, Traditionalism and the Problem of Hell’ at the Rethinking Hell conference in Auckland. This talk is now available online.
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Reflections on Annihilationism, Traditionalism and the Problem of Hell
July 28th, 2018 Comments Off on Reflections on Annihilationism, Traditionalism and the Problem of Hell
Tags: Annhilationism · Eschatology · Hell · Shawn Bawulski
The Challenge of Moral Relativism: Three Problems with Relativism
June 25th, 2018 Comments Off on The Challenge of Moral Relativism: Three Problems with Relativism
This is the third of a series of posts on moral relativism. These talks are based on some talks I have given on the subject in the last few months. In the first post, I looked at what the basic issues are. The second post examines some of the reasons people offer for accepting relativism. This […]
Tags: Ethics · Moral Relativism
The Challenge of Moral Relativism: Arguments for Relativism
June 22nd, 2018 Comments Off on The Challenge of Moral Relativism: Arguments for Relativism
This post is based on a series of talks I have given on moral relativism. In my last post, I looked at what relativism and objectivism are. Here I examine some common reasons people accept or defend relativism I will offer critical commentary on these arguments. When examining any position in philosophy it is important […]
Tags: Ethical Theory · Moral Relativism · Tolerance
The challenge of Moral Relativism: Relativism vs Objectivism: understanding the issues:
June 20th, 2018 11 Comments
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This post is the first of a series of posts which reproduce a talk on Moral Relativism I gave at both the Auckland and Tauranga Confident Christianity Conference’s and was given earlier in the year as part at a series of talks on apologetics at Orewa Community Church. In moral debates about you will hear […]
Tags: Allan Bloom · Ethical Theory · Francis Howard-Sydner · Moral Relativism
Annihilationism and the Infinity of Hell: Bawulski and the Disproportionality Argument
January 5th, 2018 10 Comments
This is part of a talk I gave at the Rethinking Hell Conference in Auckland earlier this year. Evangelical Annihilationist’s such as John Stott, Edward Fudge, John Wenham, and various others challenge the traditional view that hell is a place of eternal conscious torment. They contend that biblical language such as “eternal fire,” “eternal destruction,” “death,” […]
Tags: Annihilationism · Hell · Shawn Bawulski
Annihilationism and the Infinity of Hell: Bawulski and the Experience Argument
October 25th, 2017 7 Comments
This is part of a talk I gave at the ReThinking Hell Conference in Auckland earlier this year. The traditional conception of hell understands the punishment of the finally impenitent to be conscious eternal torment. The punishment of hell is eternal in the sense of it being of an unending duration, and it involves conscious […]
Tags: Annhilationism · Eschatology · Hell · Shawn Bawulski
Contemporary Philosophy of Religion and NCEA Religious Studies: Part Four
October 23rd, 2017 Comments Off on Contemporary Philosophy of Religion and NCEA Religious Studies: Part Four
This is a talk I gave to the New Zealand Association of Philosophy Teachers annual conference at St Cutherberts College in September this year. Several people have asked me to make this talk available. I have broken my talk up into four parts. Part One introduces what philosophy of religion. In part two I will outline two […]
Tags: Graham Oppy · John Mackie · NCEA
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.
