Recently I have been reading Timothy Keller’s book The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. (This is not like me because I don’t typically read popular apologetics books, and it is even more rare that I would lead a blog entry with one.) One thing that interested me is that when Keller […]
Entries Tagged as 'Pluralism'
Does Pluralism Make Faith Arbitrary?
October 20th, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: Apologetics · Faith and Reason · Pluralism · Timothy Keller · William Alston
The Body Snatchers and the Problem of Pluralism
December 14th, 2007 1 Comment
As I was driving around Auckland this morning talkback was rife with people discussing the recent body snatchers case; an estranged father, against the wishes of both the deceased and her next of kin stole his daughters body and buried it in a family plot. Of course I remember the furor over the previous case, […]
Tags: John Rawls · Philosophy of Religion · Pluralism · Race Relations · Religion in Public Life
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.
