This blog’s Matthew Flannagan has had his paper “Abortion as Self Defence” accepted for the 66th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (“ETS”) in San Diego, USA, from 19-21 November 2014. The abstract for Matt’s paper is as follows: Abstract Eileen McDonagh has proposed an ingenious argument for abortion rights; she concedes, for the sake of argument, that […]
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Matt to speak at the 2014 Evangelical Theological Society in San Deigo
October 1st, 2014 3 Comments
Tags: Abortion · ETS · Evangelical Theological Society · Feticide · San Diego
Did God Really Command Genocide? A new book by Copan and Flannagan
September 27th, 2014 13 Comments
Coming to a bookstore near you in November 2014: Did God Really Command Genocide? Coming to Terms with the Justice of God by: Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan From Baker Publishing Group’s page: “Reconciling a violent Old Testament God with a loving Jesus Would a good, kind, and loving deity ever command the wholesale slaughter of nations? […]
Tags: Canaanites · Did God Really Command Genocide? · Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · Is God a Moral Monster? · Old Testament Ethics · Paul Copan
“Telling the Big Story” (or how not to engage culture with theology)
May 4th, 2014 7 Comments
One thing that tends to make my eyes glaze over is the mantra, expressed so frequently by some evangelicals in New Zealand, that we live in a post-modern society and so theology should, instead of involving the rational defense of truth, be focused on “telling the big story” or “sharing the narrative”, and we should […]
Tags: Post Modernism · William Lane Craig
True Reason: Confronting the Irrationality of the New Atheism – in Paperback
March 31st, 2014 2 Comments
The paperback version of the Kindle book, True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenges of Atheism, which Matt wrote a chapter for, recently arrived from the publishers. This release has been re-released as True Reason: Confronting the Irrationality of the New Atheism (the link takes you to the book’s official website). True Reason is still edited by Tom […]
Tags: Amazon · Carson Weitnauer · Chuck Edwards · David Marshall · David Wood · Glenn Sunshine · John DePoe · Matthew Flannagan · New Atheists · Peter Grice · Randy Hardman · Richard Dawkins · Sam Harris · Samuel Youngs · Tim McGrew · Tom Gilson · True Reason · William Lane Craig
Is a Divine Command Theory Psychotic? Sam Harris on Divine Commands Part III
November 5th, 2013 2 Comments
In Sam Harris on Divine Commands Part I I criticised Harris’ characterisation of divine command meta-ethics. I refuted Harris’ contention a divine command theory is pscyopathic in Is a Divine Command Theory Pscyopathic? Sam Harris on Divine Commands: Part II. In this last post in this series, I will address Harris’s contention that a divine command theory reflects […]
Tags: Debates · Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural? · Religion and Violence · Sam Harris · William Lane Craig
In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture
October 25th, 2013 1 Comment
Another of the books Matt has contributed to arrived from the publisher’s today. In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture addresses and responds to the major contemporary challenges to the divine inspiration and authority of Scripture. It is edited by Steven B Cowan and Terry L Wilder and published by B&H Academic. The […]
Tags: Apologetics · Doug Geivett · Ethics · Genocide · In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture · Mary-Jo Sharp · Paul Copan · Published · Steven B Cowan · Terry L Wilder · William A Dembski
Matt’s Latest Publication: Virtues in Action – New Essays in Applied Virtue Ethics
October 14th, 2013 Comments Off on Matt’s Latest Publication: Virtues in Action – New Essays in Applied Virtue Ethics
Matt’s lastest publication in a book arrived by courier today. The book is Virtues in Action: New Essays in Applied Virtue Ethics; it is an an edited collection of new work in applied virtue ethics. Virtues in Action is edited by Michael W. Austin, who is Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Kentucky University, a specialist in ethics and […]
Tags: Being Good: Christian Virtues for Everyday Life · Mike Austin · Published · Virtue Ethics · Virtues in Action: New Essays in Applied Virtue Ethics
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.
