In his Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King wrote there are two types of laws: just and unjust.” He went on to ask “How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust […]
Entries Tagged as 'Theology'
MandM on Same-Sex Marriage and on being “sneaky”
August 17th, 2012 127 Comments
Tags: Gay Marriage · Marriage Equality · Same Sex Marriage · Whale Oil
Matthew Flannagan on The Sermon on the Mount Part 2 (MP3)
August 14th, 2012 Comments Off on Matthew Flannagan on The Sermon on the Mount Part 2 (MP3)
Matt preaches most Sundays at Takanini Community Church. Earlier in they year he did a series on the Sermon on the Mount. We published Matthew Flannagan on The Sermon on the Mount Part 1 (MP3) at the time but then we never got around to publishing Part 2. So now, download and listen to the MP3 of Matt preaching on The […]
Tags: MP3 · Podcast · Preaching · Sermon on the Mount · Takanini Community Church
“Jesus – Left or Right or Neither?” Hear Matthew Flannagan Interviewed on Radio
August 3rd, 2012 Comments Off on “Jesus – Left or Right or Neither?” Hear Matthew Flannagan Interviewed on Radio
Pat Brittenden interviewed this blog’s Matthew Flannagan on whether Jesus was a political figure or not on Wednesday 1 August 2012 on his morning show on Radio Rhema. Click here to hear Matt on “Jesus – left or right or neither?”
Tags: Jesus · Pat Brittenden · Political · Radio Rhema
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
Contra Mundum: Dawkins and Secular Hypocrisy
July 7th, 2012 105 Comments
When I was a non-Christian I was forever hearing about how Christians are hypocrites. When I converted to Christianity at 17, one thing that struck me is how often these charges were often a case of the pot calling the kettle black. While there is undoubtedly some hypocrisy within the church, it is also pervasive […]
Tags: Contra Mundum · Investigate Magazine · Kirk Cameron · Peter Singer · Richard Dawkins · Secularism · William Lane Craig
“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
Matt on the Evolution Debate on the “Theological Panel” on Pat Brittenden Mornings – with Craig Heilman
May 16th, 2012 Comments Off on Matt on the Evolution Debate on the “Theological Panel” on Pat Brittenden Mornings – with Craig Heilman
If you tuned in to Radio Rhema at 11:00am (NZ time) on 3 May 2012 you would have heard this blog’s Matthew Flannagan and Tear Fund’s David Slack talk the stigmas surrounding the evolution take on creation and why many don’t want it talked about on “The Panel” on Pat Brittenden morning. You can listen online here.
Tags: Creation · Evolution · Pat Brittenden · Radio Rhema · The Panel
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.
