In December we were told that Matt’s article “Tooley, Plantinga and the Deontological Problem of Evil” had passed peer review and would be published in Philosophia Christi. Issue, 13: 2 is now out and if you look at the contents page you’ll see Matt’s article has now been published. The abstract to Matt’s article is as follows: […]
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Philosophia Christi: Abstract Objects and Divine Command Ethics Down-Under
February 14th, 2012 1 Comment
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Glenn Peoples · Philosophia Christi · Publication · Published
Alvin Plantinga Calling for an Argument
February 4th, 2012 6 Comments
We moved house recently but before we got the telephone services disconnected at our old house we rescued this answer-phone message left by our then 9 year old son Noah for Matt – note the attempted American accent: Alvin Calling (Noah had no idea how we worked out it wasn’t really Alvin Plantinga.)
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Another Day, Another Publication
November 17th, 2011 11 Comments
Matt is having a good day. Presently he is in San Francisco where this morning he gave the first of his talks, “Can Traditional Theism Provide an Adequate Foundation for Morality? A Reply to Walter Sinnott-Armstrong’s Critique of William Lane Craig” to the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. By all accounts it was well received […]
Madeleine Grounded
November 9th, 2011 32 Comments
As regular readers will know we have spent a good chunk of this year focussed on planning and fundraising to get to the USA to speak at conferences in South Bend, Indiana and in San Francisco. Yesterday we should have been on a flight heading to the USA but we had to make the tough […]
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The Nominations for Evangelical Philosophical Society Executive are in…
November 3rd, 2011 9 Comments
Voting for the 2011 Executive Committee of the Evangelical Philosophical Society (EPS) has begun today. I am pleased to announce that this blog’s Matthew Flannagan has been nominated as one of the seven candidates for the three vacant executive committee positions. Matt is the only New Zealander to have been nominated – so proud of […]
Tags: EPS · Evangelical Philosophical Society
Contra Mundum: When Scientists Make Bad Ethicists
October 10th, 2011 399 Comments
One thing I find particularly frustrating is reading commentary on theology and philosophy written by scientists. To be fair, some scientists I have read are informed and do offer astute and insightful comments; commonly, however, one finds a person who is undoubtedly brilliant in their own field, writing with confident gusto, articles that fail to […]
Tags: Charles Darwin · Contra Mundum · Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · Investigate Magazine · Jerry Coyne · Robert Adams · Science and Religion
The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails – A Philosophia Christi Review of John Loftus’ Book
June 25th, 2011 305 Comments
On the list of blurbs just inside the cover of The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails, edited by John W. Loftus (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books) 2010, the following appears: As a result of being published on the blurb of the book, the current edition of Philosphia Christi, Vol. 13, no. 1 – Summer 2011, shows the following […]
Tags: Book Review · David Eller · Edward Babinski · Hector Avalos · Jason Long · John Loftus · Outsider Test for Faith · Paul Tobin · Philosophia Christi · Richard Carrier · Richard Price · The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails · Vallerie Tarico
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.
