Long time readers of this blog will remember than 5 1/2 years ago I was in a car accident that saw me suffer a herniated cervical (neck) disc and require disc replacement surgery. Readers will also be aware that the pain I lived (live) with did not end after that surgery and that when the […]
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Flannagan v ACC – Victory
September 12th, 2013 13 Comments
Tags: ACC · Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery
Published in Philo: Is Ethical Naturalism more Plausible than Supernaturalism? A Reply to Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
July 11th, 2013 13 Comments
Jeffery Jay Lowder has informed me that my article “Is Ethical Naturalism more Plausible than Supernaturalism? A Reply to Walter Sinnott-Armstrong” was published in the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of Philo. The abstract is below: “In many of his addresses and debates, William Lane Craig has defended a Divine Command Theory of moral obligation (DCT). In a […]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · Publications · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong · William Lane Craig
Flannagan v ACC: 5 Years on, an Update
March 23rd, 2013 5 Comments
On Tuesday 26 March 2013 it will be 5 years since I was in a car accident that destroyed a cervical disc and saw me need surgery to have an artificial disc inserted and which left me with an ongoing pain condition and a habit of dropping things and having tingly episodes in my hands – still! […]
Tags: ACC · Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery
Peter Singer on Human Dignity and Infanticide: Part Two
December 19th, 2012 5 Comments
This is the second half of the paper I presented to the the Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting in Milwaukee three weeks ago. It is part of a two-part post series; make sure you have read part one Peter Singer on Human Dignity and Infanticide. II. Marquis’ Critique In my previous post I sketched Singer’s desire account […]
Tags: Don Marquis · Ethics · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Human Dignity · Infanticide · Milwaukee · Peter Singer
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
Christian Flannagan Placed in The Trusts Art Scholarship 2012
August 10th, 2012 2 Comments
Matt and I were very proud that last night at the Lopdell House Art Gallery our son Christian Flannagan was awarded 3rd place in the The Trusts Art Scholarship 2012 for West Auckland students who intend to enter go to Art School next year. Christian entered one of his animations as he intends to study animation at […]
Tags: Christian Flannagan · Oblivion Fall · The Trusts Art Scholarship 2012
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
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.
