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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Apologetics'
Back from the USA
November 23rd, 2012 23 Comments
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
My First Week in Charlotte
October 27th, 2012 3 Comments
Last week I flew from Auckland to Los Angeles, then to Atlanta and from Atlanta to Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday last week. I got in shortly after 12 am on Thursday. A few hours later on Thursday morning I was introduced to much of the staff at Southern Evangelical Seminary and then began attending […]
Tags: Cherokee Apologetics Conference · John Lennox · Keith Small · Mark Forman · Paul Gould · Southern Evangelical Seminary · Southern Evangelical Seminary Apologetics Conference
“Ask Dr Matt” this Sunday Night at Massey Presbyterian Church
July 5th, 2012 2 Comments
If you are in Auckland this Sunday evening come along to Massey Presbyterian Church and ask Matt your burning theological questions. From the Facebook Page for the event: Sometimes we have unanswered questions about God, the bible and religion. Dr. Matthew Flannagan will host a questions night. He is a philosopher, theologian and apologist for […]
Tags: Apologetics · Events · Massey Presbyterian Church
Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics – Available on Kindle or Pre-Order the Book, Feat. William Lane Craig, Paul Copan, JP Moreland, Gary Habermas, Matthew Flannagan et al.
March 22nd, 2012 12 Comments
The kindle edition of Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics, published by B&H Academic, edited by William Lane Craig and Paul Copan and featuring Craig, Copan, JP Moreland, Gary Habermas, Craig Keener, Mary Jo Sharp, this blog’s Matthew Flannagan, and others, with the foreword written by Rick Warren, is now available at the […]
Tags: Amazon · Apologetics · Craig Keener · Gary Habermas · JP Moreland · Kindle · Mary-Jo Sharp · Paul Copan · Philosophy of Religion · William Lane Craig
True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenges of Atheism – on Kindle
March 21st, 2012 63 Comments
The kindle edition of new book featuring responses to the New Atheists, aimed to be readable at the popular level entitled True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenges of Atheism is now available on Amazon. This blog’s Matthew Flannagan contributed to a chapter in it alongside William Lane Craig, Sean McDowell and others. Matt’s chapter […]
Tags: Amazon · Carson Weitnauer · Chuck Edwards · David Marshall · David Wood · Glenn Sunshine · John DePoe · John Loftus · Matthew Flannagan · New Atheists · Peter Grice · Randy Hardman · Richard Dawkins · Sam Harris · Samuel Youngs · Tom Gilson · True Reason · William Lane Craig
Jerry Coyne on God and Morality Revisited
February 23rd, 2012 44 Comments
Late last year I, wrote a criticism of Jerry Coyne’s piece in USA today. Entitled, As atheists know, you can be good without God. My critique attracted some attention. Getting commentary from Mary Ann Spikes, Jason Thibodeau, Jeffery Lay Lowder, and Brian Zamulinski. Since the USA today article Coyne has written a follow up article where […]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Jerry Coyne · New Atheists · Robert Adams · William Lane Craig
Thinking Matters Youth Conference
February 16th, 2012 2 Comments
This Saturday is the first, of hopefully many, Thinking Matters Youth Conference, the schedule is below. I am leading a breakout session on Moral Relativism WHEN: Saturday, February 18 WHERE: Greenlane Christian Centre, 17 Marewa Rd, Greenlane, Auckland COST: $10 Schedule: 10am Registration 10.30am Jeff Tallon – Is Science a Threat to Faith? 11.30am Sean […]
Tags: Apologetics · God and Morality · Relativism · Thinking Matters · Tim McGrew
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.
