For anyone for whom Houston, Texas is not too much of a trek to get to, Biola University and Reasonable Faith Houston are running an apologetics conference in April. Speakers include: JP Moreland, Craig Hazen, Mary Jo Sharp, Louis Markos, Micah Parker, Scott Swiggard and more. On the God Topic: Responding with Reason and Precision Details: 1 – 2 April […]
Entries Tagged as 'Theology'
On the God Topic: Responding with Reason and Precision
March 16th, 2011 1 Comment
Tags: Apologetics · Biola University · Craig Hazen · JP Moreland · Louis Markos · Mary-Jo Sharp · Micah Parker · Reasonable Faith Houston · Scott Swiggard
Matthew Flannagan on The Sermon on the Mount Part 1 (MP3)
March 10th, 2011 1 Comment
Matt preached at Takanini Community Church last Sunday and gave the first sermon in his series on the Sermon on the Mount. Download and listen to the MP3 of Matt preaching on The Sermon on the Mount Part 1. Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came […]
Tags: MP3 · Podcast · Preaching · Sermon on the Mount · Takanini Community Church
Religion, Science, 9/11 and the Moon: Dawkins’ Response to Copan
March 9th, 2011 107 Comments
Parchment and Pen, has an audio of a brief exchange between Paul Copan and Richard Dawkins who was speaking in Ft. Lauderdale at Nova Southeastern University on “The Fact of Evolution.” (The following week, Paul Copan spoke on “The Fact of God” at Nova Southeastern and gave a direct response to Dawkins.) This MP3 of Paul Copan and […]
Tags: Atheism · Bad Reasoning · Paul Copan · Richard Dawkins · Science and Religion
Video of John Lennox “Why? Considering the Goodness and Sovereignty of God in the Midst of Suffering”
March 8th, 2011 1 Comment
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On 27 February 2011, John Lennox spoke at Howick Baptist Church as part of his tour of New Zealand on the topic “Why? Considering the Goodness and Sovereignty of God in the Midst of Suffering”. Here is the video of that talk. In it Lennox discusses some of the challenges to Christianity that events like the Christchurch earthquake […]
Tags: Christchurch Earthquake · Howick Baptist Church · John Lennox · Problem of Evil
Contra Mundum: “Till Death do us Part” Christ’s Teachings on Abuse, Divorce and Remarriage
February 28th, 2011 46 Comments
Anne was clearly angry. She relayed how her former husband had been abusive, had beaten her and sexually violated her. Despite this, however, he had never – as far as she knew – had an affair. Did this mean she had sinned before God for leaving her marriage? Was she now required to remain celibate […]
Tags: Adultery · David Instone Brewer · Divorce · Hermeneutics · Marriage · Remarriage · Spousal Abuse
The Presumption of Theism
February 23rd, 2011 87 Comments
Modern analytic philosophy of religion, so it seems, is largely dominated by purely theoretical and evidential considerations. That is, the question of whether or not theistic belief is rational is decided purely on the balance of total available public evidence as opposed to existential and pragmatic considerations. The addition of the term “public” to the […]
Tags: Atheism · Happiness · The Presumption of Theism · Theism · Worldview analysis
The Sceptic and the Scientist: Ed Feser on Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers
February 20th, 2011 39 Comments
He is not one to pull punches and true to form, in To a Louse, Ed Feser holds a mirror up to the kind of reasoning that is all too common amongst Dawkins and Myers fans with this fictional dialogue between a scientist and a science sceptic; Skeptic: Science is BS. Physicists believe in these things […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Edward Feser · PZ Myers · Richard Dawkins · Science and Religion
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.
