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A Few Minutes with Dr. William Lane Craig: Interview by John D. Martin
From March 28th to March 30th, Christian philosopher, theologian, author, and speaker Dr. William Lane Craig presented a series of workshops and discussions on the Purdue University Campus in West Lafayette, In. The series culminated with a debate on the exist...
Middle Knowledge and Christian Exclusivism
In another place, [1] I have attempted to formulate and defend a middle knowledge perspective on the exclusivity of salvation through Christ. The difficulty posed by the doctrine of Christian exclusivism, it seems to me, is counterfactual in nature:...
Reply to Evan Fales: On the Empty Tomb of Jesus
Evan Fales writes with a selfconfidence and matterofictness that belies the unconventional character of his rather maverick views on New Testament studies. Fales thinks that the gospel narratives are neither fundamentally historical accounts of the ministry of...
Flint's Radical Molinist Christology Not Radical Enough
I. In a pair of recent articles Thomas Flint has offered what he calls “some radical Molinist suggestions” for Christology. [1] In the first of the pair, published in this journal, he argues that despite Christ’s impeccability his ...
Timelessness and Omnitemporality
Divine Relations with the World Given that a temporal universe exists, we need to ask whether God can remain untouched by its temporality.It is very difficult to see how He can. Imagine God existing changelessly alone without creation, but with a changeless d...
Robert Adams's New Anti-Molinist Argument
Although Thomas Flint considers the major objections to the Molinist doctrine of middle knowledge to have been answered, so that the job of applying this doctrine theologically can get underway, [1] Robert Adams, undeterred, has presented a new anti-...
Theistic Critiques Of Atheism
Introduction The last half-century has witnessed a veritable revolution in Anglo-American philosophy. In a recent retrospective, the eminent Princeton philosopher Paul Benacerraf recalls what it was like doing philosophy at Princeton during the 1950s and '...
The Resurrection of Jesus
I spoke recently at a major Canadian university on the existence of God. After my talk, one slightly irate co-ed wrote on her comment card, “I was with you until you got to the stuff about Jesus. God is not the Christian God!” This attitude is all...
Does God Exist?
Does God exist? Here are five good reasons to think that God exists: God makes sense of the origin of the universe. God makes sense of the fine-tuning of the universe for intelligent life. God makes sense of objective moral values in the world. God makes...
Politically Incorrect Salvation
Introduction: The Problem of Religious Diversity "Diversity" is the shibboleth of the post-modern age. Nowhere is this more so than in the realm of theology or religious studies. The Harvard theologian Gordon Kaufman, observing that throughout most of Christi...