Critics of Christianity often claim that the book of Joshua teaches that God commanded genocide. Raymond Bradley for example states,
In chapters 7 through 12, [the book of Joshua] treats us to a chilling chronicle of the 31 kingdoms, and all the cities therein, that fell victim to Joshua’s, and God’s, genocidal policies. Time and again [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Theology'
Sunday Study: Joshua and the Genocide of the Canaanites Part I
January 3rd, 2010 18 Comments
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Brevard Childs · Canaanites · Genocide · Hermeneutics · Joshua · Kenneth Kitchen · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Raymond Bradley · Sunday Study · Theology · Walter Sinnot-Armstrong
St Matthews in the City: Progressive Irrationality
December 19th, 2009 31 Comments
It was a typical chilly Dunedin morning. I was standing in line at the Otago University Post Shop, about to send an important document overseas, when the student in front of me, oblivious to his audience, announced to the girl beside him “I’ve got a doll of Jesus in my car, I have tied a [...]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Glyn Cardy · Joseph · Mary · St Matthews in the City · Theology
Auckland STAANZ Conference: Eschatology and Pneumatology UPDATED
November 18th, 2009 10 Comments
[ 19 November 2009 9:00 am to 20 November 2009 5:30 pm. ] The Systematic Theology Association in Aotearoa New Zealand (STAANZ ) are this week holding a conference in Auckland focusing on eschatology and pneumatology.
What: STAANZ Conference on Eschatology and Pneumatology
When: Thursday 19 November – Friday 20 November 9:00am-5:30 pm
Where: Ponsonby Baptist Church, 43 Jervois Rd, Auckland
Cost: $15
Pre-conference prayer will be held at [...]
Tags: Eschatology · Ethics · Feticide · Kenneth Einar Himma · Pneumatology · STAANZ · Theology
“My Ways are Not Your Ways” Notre Dame Conference
November 10th, 2009 1 Comment
In September this year, the centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame hosted a conference entitled “My Ways Are Not Your Ways”; the proceedings of the conference can be seen at the previous link and is a good resource.
The theme of the conference, as outlined on Notre Dame’s webpage, is as [...]
Tags: Faith and Reason · God and Morality · Notre Dame · Philosophy of Religion · Theology
Guest Post: Having a Beer… for the Glory of God!
October 18th, 2009 11 Comments
As it is still open mic (blog?!) week(s) here are MandM; here is another guest post from Jonny King who, if you have not visited his blog before, you’ll find has a rather distinctive style; he threatened to burn effigies of our blog if we didn’t publish him LOL!
Having a Beer… for the Glory [...]
Tags: Beer · Guest Post · Hermeneutics · Jonny King · Theology
Sunday Study: The Bible and Rape – A Response to Michael Martin
September 27th, 2009 3 Comments
A little while ago I wrote a post criticising Michael Martin’s contention that the Bible commands a rape victim to marry her rapist, Does the Bible Teach that a Rape Victim has to Marry her Rapist? To summarise briefly, Martin cited Deuteronomy 22:28-29 and interpreted it as,
Here the victim of rape is as treated the [...]
Tags: Bible · Ethics · Hermeneutics · Michael Martin · Rape · Sexual Morality · Sunday Stu · Sunday Study · Theology
Sunday Study: Interpreting the Sixth Commandment Part II
September 13th, 2009 10 Comments
In a previous post, Sunday Study: Interpreting the Sixth Commandment Part I, I discussed some translations of the sixth commandment of the Decalogue. I began with the King James Version (KJV), “thou shall not kill.”[1] I looked at problems with this translation most famously raised by Augustine. The New International Version (NIV) and New Revised [...]
Tags: Augustine · Ethics · Sunday Study · Ten Commandments · Theology
Sunday Study: Interpreting the Sixth Commandment Part I
September 6th, 2009 5 Comments
One of the most well known biblical commands is the sixth commandment of the Decalogue (according to protestant enumeration). This commandment occurs in the 20th chapter of the book of Exodus and the fifth chapter of the book of Deuteronomy. In its most well-known rendition, the King James Version (KJV), this commandment states “thou shalt [...]
Tags: Sunday Study · Ten Commandments · Theology
Sunday Study R 13: Romans, Revelations and the Role of the State
September 4th, 2009 6 Comments
In a previous post, Sunday Study: 666 The Number of the Beast, I exegeted Revelation 13’s infamous reference to the mark of the beast, in that post I argued that the first beast is a reference to Rome; a world empire, built on seven hills that ruled over all the nations of the earth at [...]
Tags: Hermeneutics · Hitler · Role of the State · Sunday Study · Theology
