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What is the Relation between Science and Religion
Back in 1896 the president of Cornell University Andrew Dickson White published a book entitled A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. Under White’s influence, the metaphor of “warfare” to describe the relations bet...
The Evidence for Jesus
Last time we saw that the New Testament documents are the most important historical sources for Jesus of Nazareth. The so-called apocryphal gospels are forgeries which came much later and are for the most part elaborations of the four New Testament gospels. T...
Dawkins' Delusion
Richard Dawkins has emerged as the enfant terrible of the movement known as the New Atheism. His best-selling book The God Delusion has become the literary centerpiece of that movement. In it Dawkins aims to show that belief in God is a delusion, that is to sa...
Apologetics Training - Advice to Christian Apologists Part 1
In 1983, when Alvin Plantinga delivered his inaugural lecture as the John O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, he chose as his topic "Advice to Christian Philosophers." Today I've chosen as my subject the related, but somewh...
Should Peter Get A New Philosophical Advisor?
In his “Perils of Paul” [1] William Hasker intimates that our imaginary friend Peter needs to seek out a new philosophical advisor, given Paul’s missteps in counterfactual logic. But has Paul erred in the ways alleged by Hasker? It...
Rediscovering the Historical Jesus: Presuppositions and Pretensions of the Jesus Seminar
In 1985 a prominent New Testament scholar named Robert Funk founded a think tank in Southern California which he called the Jesus Seminar. The ostensible purpose of the Seminar was to uncover the historical person Jesus of Nazareth using the best methods of sc...
Trinity Monotheism Once More: A Response to Daniel Howard-Snyder
Introduction Daniel Howard-Snyder does not like Trinity Monotheism. I mean, he really does not like Trinity Monotheism! This much, at least, is demonstrated by his pointed critique of our proposed model of the Trinity in our Philosophical Foundations for a Ch...
Omniscience, Tensed Facts, and Divine Eternity
Many theists in the Western tradition have held that God is timeless, and recently this doctrine has enjoyed something of a resurgence. [1] The objective reality of tense remains, however, problematic for the doctrine of divine atemporality. For if a...
Timothy O’Connor on Contingency: A Review essay on <em>Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency</em> (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008)
This slim but pithy volume is an exercise in natural theology, defending a Leibnizian-style cosmological argument for an absolutely necessary being. O’Connor seeks to answer the fundamental question, “Are there contingently existing objects and, if...
<em>Creatio ex nihilo</em>: A Critique of the Mormon Doctrine of Creation
In the co-authored book How Wide the Divide? A Mormon and an Evangelical in Conversation, Mormon scholar Stephen E. Robinson declares that Mormons "do not accept the councils and creeds" of "orthodox" Christianity. However, they "do accept the Bible without it...