My previous post, William Lane Craig, Original Sin and Original Guilt, touched on the doctrine of original sin. According to the standard western articulation of this doctrine it has three components. First that human beings have a propensity towards doing wrong. Second, this propensity is inherited from our ancestors, it is not that we come […]
Entries Tagged as 'Theologians'
An Atheist and a Christian walk into a Bar… Original Sin & the Existential Paradox
January 5th, 2011 30 Comments
Tags: Atheist · Edward Oakes · God and Morality · John Hare · Moral Gap · Original Guilt · Original Sin
Tim McGrew’s Library of Historical Apologetics: Rediscovering Forgotten Defenders of the Faith
August 19th, 2010 16 Comments
Last year Timothy McGrew, Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University (and reader of and occasional commenter on this blog) was kind enough to ship us a hard-drive from the US filled with thousands of old theological works on the historical argument for the truth of Christianity. It is truly a gold-mine of information, which Matt gets himself […]
Tags: Apologetics · Christian History · Craig Hazen · Gary Habermas · Historical Apologetics · Robert Stewart · Theology · Timothy McGrew · William Lane Craig
Bradley v Flannagan Debate @ Auckland Uni “Is God the Source of Morality?”
July 13th, 2010 100 Comments
Raymond Bradley and Matthew Flannagan will debate the topic “Is God the Source of Morality? Is it rational to ground right and wrong in commands issued by God?” The debate will be held at the University of Auckland on Monday 2 August from 7-9pm in “The Centennial” 260 – 098 OGGB (the bottom level of […]
Tags: Bill Cooke · Debates · Edward Blaiklock · Evangelical Union · Matthew Flannagan · Raymond Bradley · Reason and Science Society · Thinking Matters · William Lane Craig · Zoe During
Inter-Continental Developments: Matt to Speak in the US
July 9th, 2010 19 Comments
When Matt wrote his blog series Joshua and the Genocide of the Canaanites Part I and Part II he had no idea just how far clicking the ‘publish’ button would end up taking him. It turns out that it will be taking him quite far; half-way around the world from Auckland, New Zealand to Atlanta, […]
Tags: Evangelical Philosophical Society · Evangelical Theological Society · Society of Biblical Literature
Ronald Hendel on Pascal, Evangelicals and The Society of Biblical Literature
July 3rd, 2010 5 Comments
Ronald Hendel, of the Biblical Archeology review, has written a critical piece entitled “Biblical Views: Farewell to SBL“. His beef appears to be that the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) is allowing into its membership, heaven forbid, various “evangelical and fundamentalist groups.” This, he suggests, compromises the group’s scholarly integrity. Much could be said about his […]
Tags: Faith and Reason · Pascal · Ronald Hendel · Society of Biblical Literature
Myth, Truth and Genesis 1-11
May 24th, 2010 44 Comments
In Naturalism Defeated, Evan Fales attacks the biblical teaching that man is made in the image of God. One reason he gives is, “How seriously, then, should one take the testimony of Genesis 1:26-27? … There is the generally mythical character of Genesis; many of the themes in the first 11 chapters are borrowed from, […]
Tags: Evan Fales · Genesis · Gordon Wenham · Greg Beale · Hermeneutics · Inerrancy · Peter Enns · Selection
“Has Science Disproved God?” The Podcast (Fixed!)
March 16th, 2010 13 Comments
If you missed the “Has Science Disproved God?” panel discussion at Auckland University last week and you just cannot wait for the video to be edited, formatted and uploaded to You Tube then simply follow this link: “Has Science Disproved God?” to listen to the podcast of the event. In the first hour the speakers […]
Tags: Events · Jeff Tallon · MandM on Video · Matthew Flannagan · Neil Broom · Richard Dawkins · Robert Mann · Science and Religion · Thinking Matters
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.
