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The Birth of God
Tonight I’ve been asked to speak on “The Birth of God.” The title is jarring because it seems unintelligible. How can God, the uncreated Creator of all things, have a birth? How can a being which is self-existent and eternal...
God Is Not Dead Yet
One might think from the recent spate of atheist best-sellers that belief in God has become intellectually indefensible for thinking people today. But a look at the books by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, among others, quickly reveals t...
Advice to European Christian Apologists
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 have chosen as my subject the related, bu...
"No Other Name": A Middle Knowledge Perspective on the Exclusivity of Salvation Through Christ
Introduction "There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4.12). So proclaimed the early preachers of the gospel of Christ. Indeed, this conviction permeates the New Testament and...
Rediscovering the Historical Jesus: 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...
Pantheists in Spite of Themselves? Pannenberg, Clayton, and Shults on Divine Infinity
Introduction Christian theology has traditionally affirmed that God is infinite. But some contemporary theologians seem to think that this affirmation stands in tension with the Christian belief in the reality of a finite world distinct from God. These theolo...
God and the Beginning of Time
Did time have a beginning? Isaac Newton, whose disquisitions on time and space in his Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica became determinative for the classical concepts of space and time which reigned up until the Einsteinian revolution, held that it...
On Hasker's Defense of Anti-Molinism
In a pair of recent articles [1] William Hasker has endorsed and defended Robert Adams's new anti-Molinist argument [2]: 1. According to Molinism, the truth of all true counterfactuals of freedom about us is explanatorily prior to God's dec...
Vilenkin's Cosmic Vision: A Review Essay of <em>Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes</em>, by Alex Vilenkin.
The task of scientific popularization is a difficult one. Too many authors think that it is to be accomplished by frequent resort to explanatorily vacuous and obfuscating metaphors which leave the reader puzzling over what exactly a particular theory asserts. ...
Jesus and His Passion
As we approach Easter, Jesus’ face will doubtless appear on the cover of many newsweeklies. Mel Gibson’s unexpected blockbuster “The Passion of the Christ” has raised a storm of controversy which has filled the airwaves with interviews,...