Easter can be annoying. My kids all want chocolate, hot cross buns sold out and Matt brought crumpets home from the supermarket instead, people who don’t normally have any time for Christianity normally suddenly must go to church whilst some of my Christian friends refuse to let their children eat chocolate or even celebrate because [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Theologians'
Jesus, Hot Cross Buns, Easter Eggs, Ishtar and Constantine: Is Easter Pagan? Tim McGrew says No!
April 6th, 2012 24 Comments
Tags: Constantine · Easter · Ishtar · Pat Brittenden · Radio Rhema · Tim McGrew
More Mistakes: A Rejoinder to Randal Rauser
December 3rd, 2011 157 Comments
For those who aren’t aware, there has been something of a “debate”, but what I’d prefer to refer to as an “in house discussion” between Randal Rauser (Professor of Historical Theology at Taylor Seminary) and myself. The discussion so far can be found here: My initial article was Randal Rauser’s Mistake: A Defense of Calvin’s Doctrine [...]
Tags: Arminianism · Calvinism · Circular Reasoning · Divine Justice · Divine Love · Fallacies · Justice · Limited Atonement · omnibenevolence · Question begging · Randal Rauser · Sin · Soteriology · Systematic theology · Total Depravity · Unlimited Atonement
Randal Rauser’s Mistake: A Defense of Calvin’s Doctrine of Election
November 12th, 2011 77 Comments
Thanks go to Matthew Flannagan for pointing me in the direction of this response to the problem. A while back Professor Randal Rauser issued a blog entitled “Calvinism and the Arbitrary Camp Director” in which he criticised the Calvinist understanding of election. For those of you who are unaware of the Calvinistic understanding of election, [...]
Tags: Arminianism · Calvinism · Circular Reasoning · Election · Ethics · Evangelical Christianity · Philosophical Theology · Randal Rauser · Salvation · Soteriology · Supererogation · Systematic theology · Theology
A Godless Public Square: Do ‘Private’ Christian Beliefs Have a Place in Public Life? Part I Matthew Flannagan – Theology
August 22nd, 2011 74 Comments
A few weeks ago, as part of Jesus Week at the University of Auckland, Thinking Matters and Evangelical Union hosted an event entitled A Godless Public Square: Do ‘Private’ Christian Beliefs Have a Place in Public Life? This event was a conversation between Theology, Philosophy and Law and featured Matthew Flannagan - Analytic Theologian, Glenn Peoples - Philosopher and Madeleine Flannagan - Legal [...]
Tags: Christopher Eberle · Doctrine of Religious Restraint · Evangelical Union · Glenn Peoples · Jesus Week · Michael Tooley · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Phillip Quinn · Religion in Public Life · Richard Rorty · Robert Adams · Robert Audi · Stephen Carter · Terence Cuneo · Thinking Matters
Society of Biblical Literature: Blogger and Online Publication
July 30th, 2011 1 Comment
The Society of Biblical Literature’s program book for their 2011 meeting in San Francisco is now online. The blogger and online publication session for which Matt and I have had a joint paper accepted shows who we are sharing the session with and provides links to brief abstracts for each talk. Blogger and Online Publication [...]
Tags: Academia.edu · Alice Bach · Juhana Markus Saukkonen · Richard Price · Robert Cargill · San Francisco · Society of Biblical Literature
A Godless Public Square: Do ‘Private’ Christian Beliefs Have a Place in Public Life? @ Auckland Uni
July 12th, 2011 7 Comments
Mon 1- Friday 5 August marks Jesus Week. A number of events will be held on the University of Auckland campus of which we are part of including this one brought to you by the Evangelical Union and Thinking Matters: A Godless Public Square: Do ‘Private’ Christian Beliefs Have a Place in Public Life? A Jesus [...]
Tags: Evangelical Union · Glenn Peoples · Jesus Week · Religion in Public Life · Thinking Matters
Stark Wars
June 23rd, 2011 29 Comments
Thom Stark has written a lengthy response (304 pages!) to Paul Copan’s book Is God a Moral Monster? which he has published on his blog, Religion at the Margins; it is entitled Is God a Moral. Compromiser? A Critical Review of Paul Copan’s. “Is God a Moral Monster?” In it, alongside his criticisms of Copan, Stark makes [...]
Tags: Is God a Moral Monster? · Paul Copan · Richard Hess · Thom Stark
Hear Iain Provan on Why Should we Read the Old Testament, and How?
June 11th, 2011 1 Comment
Compass Foundation and Regent College are hosting Iain Provan at an event in Auckland next month entitled ‘Why Should we Read the Old Testament, and How?’ Here is the info from their blurb: Why read the Old Testament? What relevance could this old collection of books have for us today? And how should we read it? How [...]
Tags: Compass · Events · Iain Provan · Regent College
Transcript: Sam Harris v William Lane Craig Debate “Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural?” UPDATED
May 3rd, 2011 51 Comments
Sam Harris and William Lane Craig debated the moot “Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural?” at the University of Notre Dame on 7 April 2011. We’ve already linked to the debate MP3 and a playlist of the video and we have published a two part review but now, as an MandM exclusive, we bring [...]
Tags: Debates · Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural? · Notre Dame · Sam Harris · Transcript · William Lane Craig
Contra Mundum: Stoning Adulterers
May 2nd, 2011 90 Comments
Back in 2005 there was a minor furore when Labour MP Ashraf Choudhary stated he agreed with the Koran’s teaching that people who engaged in homosexual conduct or who committed adultery should be stoned to death. In the media spiral that followed, some commentators pointed out that it was not just Islam that held this [...]
Tags: Adultery · Ashraf Choudhary · Capital Punishment · Contra Mundum · Gordon Wenham · Investigate Magazine · J J Finkelstein · John Goldingay · Old Testament Ethics · Raymond Westbrook · Walter Kaiser
